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| 5:33
| Steve still hasn't come up with words for the opening theme. It should be easy but he hasn't really set aside time in his busy schedule to do it. |
| 5:34
| Steve knows he should make time to write lyrics. As Buzz has pointed out in the past, time management is key. Usually when the show is over Steve does stuff in the office until about noon. |
| 5:35
| After that he goes home and spends the entire day dreading writing his blog and working out. It's a day full of dread. On the ride home everyday he tells himself he's going to go home and write the blog but instead he takes a nap. It's never a good nap either because he has dreams about his blog. |
| 5:36
| By working out Steve means walking around his neighborhood. There was an abundance of MILFs on Steve's route which livens up the trip. He hates to use the term MILF though, it's sort of lost it's meaning. To Steve it just means hot moms. |
| 5:37
| Steve spends a lot of time on his walk deciding how he's going to talk to anyone who might approach him. Usually he can't see who it is at first either. He did run into a couple on his walk and the guy gave him a thumbs up, that's all he's looking for. He doesn't even know what the thumbs up was for, it could be for the walk, or the Tribune column or his hosting of the Comcast Sports Awards. |
| 5:38
| Steve also has a few dogs on the route that he has befriended. There are other dogs who are still aggressive towards him that he hasn't bothered befriending. These dogs are behind security fences which give them a false sense of security. Steve's not afraid of dogs but Buzz thinks he should be. |
| 5:39
| Something weird happened to Buzz this morning, he couldn't get out the front door of his building. As he reached for the handle the door knob came off. He tried to put it back in the door but it still wouldn't open. |
| 5:40
| Buzz knew that at any moment three crazed dogs would come downstairs to be walked by their owner and they'd all be stuck in the foyer. Luckily the Flash cab driver showed up and Buzz realized that he could Buzz the guy in and he could open the door from the outside. |
| 5:41
| It was all done using hand motions, like emergency personnel. As Buzz was walking away he heard the door close and realized he should have propped it open. The next person to come out of the building would have a world of trouble trying to get outside. They also wouldn't have a cab driver there to help them. |
| 5:42
| So right now that owner and his three dogs are probably waiting in that airlock. And you know that those dogs are ready to go once they get into the foyer. They probably have a very short window in which they can hold it. |
| 5:43
| This person has three dogs in one condo? A couple of them might be fading but no one is really happy about it. Even the owner didn't really want three dogs, he just took them because they were homeless. |
| 5:44
| Steve has found that being a dog snob has helped to cut down on a situation like that. Sure the dog is homeless but they only want purebred dogs from kennels. |
| 5:45
| Steve has to win over several dogs on his route. There's one dog that sees him coming and rolls over before he even gets there. It was awkward the other day because the girl of the family who owns the dog was standing in the garage while Steve walked up to pet it. |
| 5:46
| So Steve did his walk and there were attractive neighborhood moms out and about. One of them was riding a bike which was impressive. Because of the lakefront Buzz gets an endless parade of that. |
| 5:47
| Steve doesn't get a lot of that but he has thought of moving his walk to a different location in town. Most of the women in Steve's neighborhood have probably heard the show at some point and are now avoiding Steve. You can sort of see their point. |
| 5:48
| Steve did get everything done yesterday in time to watch all of the Olympics. He watched until 11:30 but that was still not all of it. When he went to sleep he could tell the American women's gymnasts weren't going to win. Steve only considers the gold medal to be winning. |
| 5:49
| Everyone who wins a silver and a bronze act like they're happy about it but Buzz would like to think they're really not. When you win a silver you're only two medals away from being Steve. |
| 5:50
| Steve watched the gymnastics up until that Alicia Sacramone choked and messed it all up. Steve felt bad for her but at the same time, c'mon! Steve did get into the Chinese team but then he started to feel like to be Gary Glitter |
| 5:51
| Steve turned the TV off but he knew he was missing the end of it. Mary watched the entire thing meaning she probably got about a half hour of sleep. Steve knew the Americans wouldn't win the gold so he wasn't really interested. |
| 5:52
| The gymnast that Steve thought was the cutest is 16 so at some point he decided he should stop watching. He's going to city hall today to register as a sex offender. Or he could go to Alabama and get married, that's legal there. Shawn Johnson is from Iowa though, 16 might be legal there. Steve should ask The Nadas. |
| 5:58
| That's Bela Karolyi, he makes Chef Hans sound like he doesn't have an accent. Why is he the commentator for the gymnastics? And why is he not allowed on the floor with the girls? |
| 5:59
| Karolyi's wife is no in charge of the U.S. team for some reason. The last time Steve saw Bela Karolyi he was walking around with Keri Strug. |
| 6:00
| NBC has two former gymnasts who are commentators and they're both very negative. It seems like there's a lot of negativity in that culture though, you're probably always told what you're doing wrong. It's like that Dick Buttons guy who used to commentate on the ice skating. |
| 6:01
| Steve would like to get one of those big founts of chalk that gymnasts use. Is that chalk? Buzz thinks it's the same thing that pool players use. Steve didn't know pool players used chalk. There's a part of Steve that wishes the whole thing was full of blow. |
| 6:02
| So the U.S. women's team won the sliver and Michael Phelps won two more gold medals. Everyone keeps talking about which athlete Phelps has surpassed with each medal. Give the guy a break. |
| 6:03
| It's occurred to Buzz that Phelps can probably swim through all that, plus Mark Spitz bad-mouthing him. |
| 6:04
| If Steve reads this article about Michael Phelps will he be spoiling something? It says there was a strange twist but Steve didn't see any strange twists. Phelps was hoping to break some record that he didn't break. He still won though, relax! You can only win so many medals and get so many endorsements. |
| 6:05
| Steve remember some of this unfolding but he was drifting off. He didn't even turn on the Sox game last night because he didn't want to get confused when he switched back to the Olympics. NBC jumps around way too much and every announcer says the exact same thing at every event. They have a story that they've been told to hammer home. |
| 6:06
| Caller John wanted to make a minor correction, Michael Phelps now has 5 gold medals so he's more than halfway to his goal of 8. Did Steve say he had 4? |
| 6:07
| This is where Steve gets confused, with all the medals he's won and who he's surpassed. And then every announcer has the story that he or she is hammering home. |
| 6:08
| Phelps came out of the water in a huff because his goggles had filled with water. Apparently he didn't get a good seal on that. Or maybe he was just mad that he didn't beat that record. And throughout all of this Steve keeps thinking about ordering Chinese food. |
| 6:09
| It's hard to keep track of all of this, then they lull you with hours of women's synchronized diving. There's a lot of keep track of with the swimming. |
| 6:10
| There should be a rule that the female swimmers shouldn't wear those hats, it doesn't look good. John isn't a fan of the headwear that the men's water polo team is sporting. They have the caps but then they're tied off with a bow on the bottom, like something your mom would tie. |
| 6:11
| Buzz's wife Aimee was hopping mad because of how overdressed the men's beach volleyball team was. The women's team comes out in practically nothing. |
| 6:12
| Caller Michelle wanted to let Buzz know that the gymnasts do use chalk. Steve is familiar with pool players using chalk on the tip of their pool cues. They also use it on their hands. Steve didn't doubt Buzz, he just hadn't played that much pool in his life. |
| 6:13
| Perhaps Steve's dad didn't own a pool hall, that's where Buzz's superior knowledge comes from. |
| 6:14
| Caller David couldn't help but notice that the gymnasts were really built on top and had really thin legs. David didn't find it attractive, it was off-putting. That's pretty persnickety. He didn't check out their sweet asses that you could bounce a quarter off of? |
| 6:15
| The upper body strength just helps them hold on to the headboard better. And Steve likes the ponytail for grabbing onto. These are some of the thoughts he's having while watching the gymnasts, the ones of legal age at least. |
| 6:16
| Steve feels he turned David around there. He was probably watching the gymnastics with his wife and had to throw down some fake critique. Then he actually woke up today believing it! |
| 6:23
| LIve read: The Little Guys |
| 6:24
| News with Buzz |
| 6:25
| Michael Phelps has collected two more gold medals bringing his career total to 11 with 5 in these games. He only talks about gold medals, no silver or bronze. A silver medal means you're just two medals away from being Steve. |
| 6:26
| Russia is denying accusations that they sent tanks into a town that housed most of Georgia's military during the 5-day conflict. |
| 6:27
| A Girl's Gone Wild cameraman was jailed and released after allegedly assaulting a woman, forcibly removing her top and putting his hand to her throat. The girls have to go wild themselves. |
| 6:28
| Mark David Chapman will remain behind bars at Attica prison in upstate New York. Yesterday there was speculation that he was in a mental institution. We learned yesterday that Chapman had been getting conjugal visits from his wife for the last 16 years. How often is that, once a week? It's actually a yearly thing, she lives in Hawaii. You need to get something closer. |
| 6:29
| A medical examiner has ruled that singer Isaac Hayes died of a stroke. He heard he's a bad mother...shut your mouth! |
| 6:30
| An actor who appeared in 40 Year Old Virgin has been arrested on charges of attempted murder. Indian comedian Shelley Malil is accused of stabbing an ex-girlfriend 20 times. He was one of Steve Carrel's co-workers in that movie but was also on Scrubs and Seinfeld. If he was on Scrubs Pete probably has tape of him. |
| 6:33
| Steve's going to call down to our resident film expert in the film archives. Malil was the younger Indian guy who worked at the electronics store, Haziz according to IMDB. Jim doesn't need to source it, Steve can go there himself. It's more fun to think that we have an expert on staff who works in our film archives. |
| 6:34
| That's not the old guy who talks dirty all the time. Jim doesn't remember the younger guy being all that funny, the old guy stole the show. Maybe that's why the guy was angry. That was Jim, down in our film library. We're the only morning show with a film library. |
| 6:33
| The man who claims to be named Clark Rockefeller says he has no idea who he is. He does know that he loves the daughter that he allegedly kidnapped. This story is not going away and the more Buzz hears about it the more likely it seems that it's going to be a made-for-TV movie. |
| 6:34
| The man has been identified as German-born Christian Karl Gerhartsreiter. He doesn't remember that name but he does recall being Christopher Chichester. The man is also wanted for questioning in the disappearance for a California couple 20 years ago. |
| 6:35
| The Chicago Archdiocese has paid out $12.7 million to victims of clergy abuse. Cardinal George said he was very sorry for what happened and made sure to point out that the money didn't come from collections but from insurance and selling off real estate. |
| 6:36
| Of course that insurance and that real estate was paid for by collections but whatever. Even after the pay out though a lot of these victims hold press conferences. At some point don't you have to let it go? |
| 6:37
| Buzz thinks that you let it go once you get satisfaction for what happened to you. Steve gets that what happened is really bad. The angle of some of the former victims is that they're doing this so that clergy abuse doesn't happen to someone else. It will keep happening though. |
| 6:38
| It doesn't seem like the church has rethought anything though. It seems like a breeding ground for perverts. As a potential pervert himself, Steve recognizes red flag areas. Many of your priests are nerds who couldn't get girls themselves. |
| 6:39
| There are plenty of priests working older girls though. Steve once had to kick a priest out of his condo in Detroit because he was talking to Janet about his sexual frustration. Steve's upstairs trying to sleep and he's hearing that! Out you go, tru da door or tru da window! |
| 6:40
| Blago called for a special session of the state senate yesterday. The legislature did meet but the governor was busy at a livestock auction at the state fair. |
| 6:41
| Steve would like to say that Jim is pumping out some inferior quality audio today. It's actually Pete's tape that Jim was using, he's been having some problems with the tapes lately. |
| 6:42
| So it's Pete's fault and not Jim's? What kind of problems is Pete having, other that when he's in the tape room he pretends like he can't see or here anyone who's in there with him, including Steve. |
| 6:43
| Pete says it's very loud in that tape room. He can keep saying that to Mary and Stephanie, along with that he doesn't have good peripheral vision but Steve doesn't buy it. Pete doesn't think Steve wants him engaging in small talk with him. He could just say "Hi Steve" that's enough. |
| 6:44
| At some point Steve just gives up because he doesn't need that kind of rejection from an employee. If we're having trouble with our machines then we should get someone on it. |
| 6:45
| Are we in the stage where Pete will let these bad audio issues go on for about 3 months? Pete's pretty sure it's the tapes and not the VCRs. So get new ones! It's very hard to come across 8 and 9 hour VHS tapes which is what Pete needs. |
| 6:46
| We can probably special order those VHS tapes for Pete. Is he just going into Walgreen's looking for tapes? He can usually find them at FYE, they're known for their large stock of blank VHS tapes. We're professionals Pete! Order from a professional source! |
| 6:47
| Pete is very paranoid about the bad audio which is why he tapes a lot of stuff at home too. Steve is sorry that Buzz's newscast has to suffer. Steve blames Jim though, he should have stepped in like some sort of audio intervention. |
| 6:48
| The bad tape starts with Pete but it filters down to all of us. One day Pete's going to walk into the office and everyone will be sitting around the table waiting for him. He won't see them though because he has bad peripheral vision. |
| 6:49
| How can Pete not notice Steve! Unless Steve is doing something Pete usually doesn't see them. Pete thinks Steve will rue the day when he actually opens up to him. He has a lot on his mind. Steve says bring it on! |
| 6:50
| An Australian man is furious with Google after he ended up on their Google Streetview feature, passed out in someone's front yard. The man had gotten drunk after the death of a friend and fell asleep on someone's lawn. That means he passed out. |
| 6:51
| The guy is in plain view so Google has every right to shoot that. If you go up to Wrigley Field on that Streetview you can see Lou Piniella leaving the park. Buzz heard a couple of weeks ago that there was a Streetview of Lou going into a bar. |
| 6:52
| Is that different from the one of him leaving Wrigley? Maybe the person driving the van is a Cubs fan and he's stalking Lou? |
| 7:00
| One more thing about Pete. We have a bank of VCRs where Pete tapes everything we use on the show, including the drop ins. Pete does a good job of culling all the best stuff for the show. |
| 7:01
| We had some bad audio during the news and Steve thought it was Jim's fault but he got the bad tape from Pete. Pete's been getting his tapes at FYE and they're all covered in dust, probably left over from the 90s. |
| 7:02
| Steve has a new wrinkle to throw into this, he's going to call up to the office. Stephanie orders 6 hours tapes so that Jim can record the show everyday. If Pete would have just asked, Stephanie could have ordered 9 hours tapes for him. Instead he just makes thinks difficult for himself. Why have Stephanie order the tapes when Pete can go to FYE and fail? |
| 7:03
| Stephanie can go get Steve's sandwich now. She could send Vicki if she wants. Vicki did actually go get Steve's sandwich today. |
| 7:04
| Steve can't hear any more about corn from Vicki, she's gone corn crazy. Every weekend Vicki goes to Wisconsin and brings back a ton of corn. Steve is eating so much corn lately. |
| 7:05
| Vicki has some method of melting the butter in a pan and then dipping the corn in. Steve puts his butter in a cup and then melts it and pours it over his corn. |
| 7:06
| So Pete should just have Stephanie order the tapes. There are a lot of other people around here who do things for the show. It would help if Jim shared some information with Pete, the two of them are both nutjobs. |
| 7:07
| Caller Bill wanted to point Steve to something on Google Streetview, the Hangover Park community center. He was just dragging the little man around and it landed in front of the community center where there was some police activity. |
| 7:08
| Bill doesn't have the exact address of the rec center though. He was on hold all through that last break, he couldn't do some research? |
| 7:09
| What's Bill on his way to right now? He works as an installer of Hunter Douglas mini blinds. Does he work for Eddie Z? Bill has his own company, they beat the pants off Eddie Z all the time. It's just Bill and his wife, they have no overhead. |
| 7:10
| Is that one of those franchise deals where you have your own van and a clever name? Steve has some windows in the TV room that need blinds but Janet refuses to put blinds on them. Every time Steve is blinded by the setting sun Janet tells him to get over it, it only lasts for a half hour everyday. |
| 7:11
| Caller Ed drives a cab in the suburbs and the community center in Hanover Park is at Walnut and Church. Steve's done looking for this, he knows what it looks like for someone to get arrested. |
| 7:12
| Mark Czerniec found the guy getting arrested. There's only one photo of Lou and he's leaving Wrigley Field. The one of him going into a bar might have been taken down. |
| 7:13
| Mark Czerniec needs to call in because Steve is confused now. Buzz wants to know if these are satellite photos, those seem more exotic. He could do what they're doing on the Streetview, he can just drive around taking pictures. |
| 7:14
| Steve doesn't think Buzz could even get his neighborhood done, let alone the entire world. |
| 7:15
| Mark Czerniec is on the phone. There is no longer a photo of Lou on Google Streetview. There used to be a photo of Lou in front of the Improv Olympics around the corner from Wrigley but there's a different one now. Lou loves the Improv. |
| 7:16
| Mark likes the Google Streetview. It's very helpful for his wife who has dealings with real estate at work. It's also a good way to look for houses in the Milwaukee area. |
| 7:17
| Steve is trying to get Pat and his wife to move out of his basement and yesterday he found a good place for them. He was able to show it to them using Google Streetview. |
| 7:18
| Buzz still prefers the satellite view but that hasn't been taken away from him. It's just been enhanced with Streetview. |
| 7:19
| Mark's neighbor is on Google Streetview mowing his law shirtless. Mark told him about it but he still mows his lawn shirtless. Is he the kind of guy who should be mowing his lawn shirtless? Unless you look like one of the guys in the volleyball scene in Top Gun you probably shouldn't be shirtless. There's a lot of vibration on those mowers and that means jiggling. |
| 7:20
| Buzz used to run shirtless but at some point he decided that was wrong. Steve can't speak to that, he's never seen Buzz shirtless. When Steve was walking on the beach in New Buffalo on Sunday he went shirtless but put it back on when he approached people. |
| 7:21
| If Mark could go geek on Steve for a moment, he'd like to tell him about Tiny URL. It's a website that shrinks those really long URLs into something much shorter. So if you want to see the thing in Hanover Park go to TinyURL.com/5ljzep. That's pretty cool. |
| 7:29
| It's time now for a special report from our Olympics correspondent Ben Gay. Of course Ben recorded his opening theme before he left for Beijing, it sounds flawless. |
| 7:30
| Ben is in the middle of what's called a "donut", that is he's surrounded by a pre-recorded open and close. Ben is the hole in the donut. |
| 7:31
| Michael Phelps is more than halfway to beating Mark Spitz' record of 9 gold medals at one Olympic games. |
| 7:32
| Meanwhile the women's gymnastics team failed to get the gold medal. Last night during the coverage they were going over the individual girls and their favorite foods. They didn't list Alicia Sacramone's favorite food because she'd choke on it! |
| 7:33
| That had a Paul Lynde feel to it to Buzz. Ben appreciates that, he's always been an admirer of Paul Lynde. |
| 7:34
| Can Ben just say there are a lot of Chinese people over in Beijing? And there's a lot of Chinese food but it's not like what we eat over there. They eat all the stuff that should be thrown away. |
| 7:35
| Buzz will have to excuse Ben for a moment, he needs to speak to his Chinese house boy. Ben is thinking about bringing him home. His name is Cheng Wong Wang or Chen Wang How or something. Ben calls him something different every time but mostly he just likes to use the word wang. |
| 7:36
| Wang is making Ben some scrambled eggs with scorpions, he's not too crazy about that. It's 8:36 at night in China so Ben is having a lumberjack's dinner. It's better than pickled duck feet. No wonder they allow themselves to be shipped over here as sex slaves. |
| 7:37
| Ben would like to tell Buzz about a few Olympic sports that aren't getting much coverage, like table tennis. Did Buzz know that it was table tennis that led to the detente between the U.S. and China in the 1970s? |
| 7:38
| The Chinese invited the U.S. team to come play in China. That lead to Richard Nixon going over there to meet with some leader who's name Ben can't remember. It's not Chairman Mao but boy are there a lot of photos of him everywhere. Hopefully he gets a commission for each photo. |
| 7:39
| So without table tennis we probably wouldn't have all that Chinese food over there. We'd have no Mandarin or no Szechwan. Ben would kill for some Szechwan right now, he's looking at a plate of scrambled eggs with scorpions otherwise! |
| 7:40
| China's quest for a gold sweep in their national sport of table tennis got off to a good start when the men and women won both of their first rounds. Both teams overcame nerves from a raucous home crowd. The men and women barely beat Greece and Croatia, respectively. |
| 7:41
| Ben doesn't have any audio from these competitors so he'll have to recreate all of the audio for Buzz. |
| 7:42
| The women's team are overall favorites in doubles table tennis matches. Has Buzz seen any ping-pong coverage? He should watch it, that's why we're in China in the first place! |
| 7:43
| German Olympic handballer Pascal Henz flew home on Wednesday after sustaining a severe knee injury the night before in a loss to Iceland. He'll be replaced by Sven Soren Christoferson. |
| 7:44
| Finally, Britain continued their dominance in the men's coxless fours. That's rowing Buzz. So Ben is also covering coxless fours if Buzz is interested in that. |
| 7:46
| In the men's smaller boats New Zealand struggled behind rival Czech Republic. So anyway there's rowing going on over in Beijing too. |
| 7:47
| Ben will keep Buzz posted on the coxless fours. Wang the house boy is telling Ben that is lumberjack dinner is ready. He sounds very cute to Buzz. |
| 7:48
| Ben's going to get some sleep after his lumberjack dinner and then hopefully he'll be able to cover some more coxless fours as well as sculling. They have trampolining also, did Buzz know that? |
| 7:49
| Ben can tell Buzz that there are several different boats used in rowing. Boats can be coxless, bow-coxed and stern-coxed. |
| 7:57
| Live read: Townstone Financial |
| 7:59
| It seems like all the people playing table tennis in China are named Wang. It seems like a lot of people over there are named Wang but it probably doesn't mean the same thing. You'd hope it doesn't. On the other hand a lot of people over here are named Richard. |
| 8:00
| Alright it's time for the Eight O'Clock Taco Bell. We're going to start doing Stories Outside the Bun again so send in your Taco Bell stories. You could win $365 in Border Bucks. Email your stories to Tacos@dahl.com |
| 8:01
| It's time now for Bob and Ron on a Wake & Bake Wednesday. They have woken and boken already. |
| 8:02
| Steve normally prefers a stimulant in the morning, not something to make him more relaxed. Ron likes to keep himself right in the middle, not up or down. |
| 8:03
| Matt Dahl is now admitting that his dog, Walter, is better since Bob started walking him. Bob loves Matt's dog, he's a great fetch player. Walter leaves it all out on the field. |
| 8:04
| Matt is getting his money's worth on these walks, Walter goes to the bathroom at least 3 times. Matt's dog is completely crazy though. |
| 8:05
| We had Bob Barker in Chicago last week telling us how to raise our animals. He was demanding all pets be fixed within 6 months. What's it to him anyway? |
| 8:06
| It's really only the stray dogs that have unwanted pregnancies. In all of Bob's time walking dogs he's never met a dog owner who said their dog was pregnant. So how are you going to find the strays? Maybe a sting operation like they do with the free Super Bowl tickets. |
| 8:07
| Matt is still bringing the dog out to the house every weekend though. The point of hiring Bob was so that didn't happen. But Matt does whatever he wants. At least he's smart enough to get out of there before Steve comes home. |
| 8:08
| Bob can dogsit on the weekends, he'll have Rey the dog at his house this weekend. That's R-E-Y for showlogging purposes. |
| 8:09
| Steve has something in the Mailbag for Bob and Ron. It's a letter, not a package. This is a virtual mailbag so it wouldn't be a real package. |
| 8:10
| This emailer has been listening since Disco Demolition. He recently moved to Florida and was going through withdrawal until he discovered podcasting. |
| 8:11
| This emailer is also Ron's brother. He doesn't look like a terrorist, he doesn't have a bong and he has a real job. Bob sort of remembers hearing this letter already. Did Steve read this? Pete remembers hearing about Ron's brother recently. |
| 8:12
| Steve calls down to the Dahl.com nerve center. Jim remembers hearing about Ron's brother who lives in Florida but he doesn't remember if it was in a letter. Steve can't keep track of this stuff, everyday feels like two days to him. Jim found the show log entry, it's from July 23. That was almost a month ago. It felt like it wasn't that long ago to Jim. We don't all need to analyze what happened, let's just say Steve forgot. |
| 8:13
| Alright time for some rock history. This week we celebrate the anniversary of Woodstock, which was not actually in Woodstock, New York. Didn't Bob and Ron do this story last year? Dig it, dig it, camping in the woods, humping in the mud. Bumma, bumma. What a weird way to become immortal. |
| 8:14
| Every year we go through this when Buzz can't remember the name of the guy who did the announcements. It wasn't Michael Lange, it was Muskrat. Ron has the audio of the stage announcements. |
| 8:16
| Steve needs to get a transcript of that stage announcement so he can memorize the entire thing. There's not an single word that guy says that sounds correct. |
| 8:17
| Steve forgot about "dwenching wain". It sounds like someone is trying to get Muskrat off stage but he won't go. It ended up being the highlight off Woodstock. |
| 8:18
| Also this week in rock history, the mayor of San Antonio declared it Cheech & Chong day. That was because they had a new LP coming out, an LP that included a big sheet of rolling paper. Bob still has his but Ron used it. |
| 8:19
| Will we be getting a Cheech & Chong day in Chicago when they're in town on November 8th? We've got a Bernie Mac Day on tap. Mayor Daley is going to be eulogizing him! |
| 8:20
| Bob and Ron were also wondering who they talk to about getting Cheech & Chong tickets. This week is also the anniversary of the first appearance of Fleetwood Mac. That was the Peter Green era. |
| 8:21
| Song: Black Magic Woman, Fleetwood Mac |
| 8:25
| One of Steve's first personal appearances in radio was to introduce Fleetwood Mac at a concert they were doing in town. |
| 8:26
| Steve was working at a radio station out of town and he'd stay at a Motel 6 which back then was $6. He made $20 for his shift but he was being offered $100 to introduce the band. |
| 8:27
| Steve didn't know much about Fleetwood Mac at the time, this was before Lindsay Buckingham had joined the band. So the promoter comes up to Steve and tells him there's a problem. The only problem Steve would have is if he wasn't getting $100. |
| 8:28
| Steve wasn't aware of the internal struggle going on in the band. They had split apart and friends of Fleetwood Mac were touring under their name. So Steve had to go out on stage and tell everyone that Fleetwood Mac couldn't make it but their friends were here and they looked just like the band. |
| 8:29
| For $100 Steve didn't mind doing that. As you can imagine though everyone at the concert was there to see the real Fleetwood Mac. It was the first time Steve had been booed on stage but certainly not the last. |
| 8:35
| Caller Steve has a question for Bob and Ron over in the idiot tank. He's wondering if they've ever heard of Scooby Snacks in reference to drugs. |
| 8:36
| Bob and Ron have both heard Scooby Snacks as drug lingo. Could they be any more vague? Buzz read yesterday, when we were talking about Scooby Snacks, that the term can refer to getting ashes in your mouth from your pipe. |
| 8:37
| Bob and Ron aren't familiar with that term but they're going to start using it. The kids come up with new drug terms everyday, it's hard to keep up. |
| 8:38
| Over the weekend Steve started watching Weeds again, he missed a few season. It started getting a little too unbelievable. She's selling drugs in some nice neighborhood and her boyfriend is a DEA agent, that seems unlikely. |
| 8:39
| So Bob and Ron don't have answer to the caller's question. Welcome to Steve's nightmare. He does have some good news for Bob and Ron though. |
| 8:40
| Steve calls down to Adam's office, he can get them Cheech & Chong tickets. He used to manage them right? We were giving away tickets last week. |
| 8:41
| Steve wouldn't mind seeing Cheech & Chong but it won't be a night out with Bob and Ron. That would be their big chance but it's not being afforded to them. Bob and Ron have Dave's Not Here on their CD, Steve can play it on the air right? |
| 8:42
| Steve plays Dave's Not Here from Cheech & Chong. |
| 8:43
| That was going to have a nice payoff but Ron didn't do the proper editing. That's why Steve asked if it was OK to play it. Ron has heard it so many times on the radio that he didn't even know. |
| 8:44
| Steve was going to let it go but he can't really do that. He has heard the same thing in Life in the Fast Lane so maybe it's a CBS thing. Steve's not going down for Bob and Ron though. |
| 8:45
| Steve had to do that, right Buzz? Buzz is so unclear on the rules, he doesn't even know. He knows that he doesn't put that stuff on the air though. |
| 8:46
| It's too bad that had to happen, we were very close to paying off one of the best Bob and Ron segments ever. But then Ron had to leave some blasphemous profanity in there. |
| 8:47
| Steve passed the CBS course on what you can and can't say and that one is in there. Bob and Ron have nothing to lose though. |
| 8:55
| Buzz has never watched Weeds. He checked out the first episode and that was it. The reality is that he only gets to watch about 2 hours of random TV per day. |
| 8:56
| Is that because he's doing prep for the news, poring over his various sources. Buzz does watch the news so that leaves him about an hour and a half to watch a short movie or maybe some Superman with Piper. |
| 8:57
| Maybe Steve is watching too much TV? A lot of the activities at Buzz's house revolve around the kid. It's good that he does all that stuff but he misses TV. Pretty soon she'll be a teenager and he can go back to watching TV> |
| 8:58
| Alright time for the web poll. Yesterday's question was "Have you ever used the Mitsubishi Jet Towel?" |
| 8:59
| Today's question is "Do you like the Orange Chicken from Panda Express?" Panda Express thrives on their orange chicken. Andrew Cherng remembers pacing through his Chinese restaurant in Pasadena wondering if anyone would actually eat there. |
| 9:00
| Steve's parents know this guy because they used to eat at the original Panda Express restaurant. People would stick their heads in and then leave. Cherng's mom sprinkled salt on the sidewalk to ward off negative energy. Here we use salt to melt ice. |
| 9:01
| 35 years later Cherng and his wife control one of the largest family-owned fast-food empires in his country. Panda Express now has 1,100 restaurants in shopping malls, airports and sports stadiums. They're expected to top $1.2 billion in revenue this year. |
| 9:02
| Panda Express celebrates their 25th anniversary this year as well. When other fast food chains started to offer white meat chicken Panda Express figured out that they could use the cheaper boneless, skinless dark meat with a light flour batter to hold moisture. |
| 9:03
| By 1991 the orange chicken had become the chain's biggest seller. 4 out of 10 people who eat at Panda Express include orange chicken in their order. |
| 9:04
| Steve's parents were friendly with the Cherng family and then at one point Steve's mom slipped in one of the restaurants and they sued them. Steve's parents might be gypsies, it seems like his mom slips a lot. She might have slipped on a cruise ship too. |
| 9:05
| Steve's going to call his parents, what's the worst that can happen? They can't cut off his inheritance or anything. |
| 9:06
| This is a rare occasion when Roger Dahl answers the phone and isn't on the speaker. Steve's parents were friends with the Cherng's and they used to eat at Panda express quite a bit. Steve's mom did slip at a restaurant and broke her leg but they didn't sue them. They're not friends with the Cherng's any more though but there was no falling out. |
| 9:07
| Steve's parents don't eat at Panda Express any more because it's too expensive. Too expensive? Roger doesn't want to get give in trouble, they're an advertiser right? They are advertisers but no one actually believes that their food is too expensive. Steve's dad just sounds like a crazy old man. |
| 9:08
| There was also an incident on a cruise ship with the vacuum toilet. The seat came loose and Steve's mom went head first into the shower. And there was no lawsuit there either, the cruise company gave them a $3,000 settlement. |
| 9:09
| Steve's parents should have tried to be a little more friendly with the Cherng's. They actually tried to get them to open more restaurants and they were going to invest in them. |
| 9:10
| Steve's parents sat down with Andrew Cherng and his dad to talk about it. Then they had some sort of Japanese liquor. Is that when the wheels fell off? |
| 9:11
| Steve's parents went to Andrew's wedding. They used to like to give people a nice set of cutlery for their wedding, they had a place they got them from called Liberty Sales in La Coseta. |
| 9:12
| Steve's dad wasn't sure if he should give a Chinese guy knives though. Is this where Roger does his Jerry Lewis hunk? |
| 9:13
| Maybe Steve's dad is going more topical, there was that stabbing in Beijing over the weekend. |
| 9:14
| It seems like at the very least a broken leg could have gotten Steve's parents a lifetime of free orange chicken at Panda Express. |
| 9:22
| Live read: Triton College |
| 9:23
| Alright it's time for the news and Chef Hans is also. Guten morgen! Hans never says guten morgen, he only wants to say guten tag. He's just being difficult. |
| 9:24
| When Steve was growing up there was a guy who did mornings named Robert Morgan and he would say Morgan in the Morgen. |
| 9:25
| News with Buzz |
| 9:26
| This just in from Shelbyville, Indiana, the world's tallest woman has passed away. Buzz digs the taller chicks. |
| 9:27
| Five U.S. protestors shouting "Free Tibet" not far from the main Olympic sporting complex were arrested by Chinese police. |
| 9:28
| Meanwhile Michael Phelps now has the most gold medals of any Olympian at 11. He's hoping to get two more before the games are over. |
| 9:29
| Meanwhile the U.S. women's gymnastics team has picked up another silver medal. It's not gold though. Gymnast Shawn Johnson said her and her team still feel like winners. That Shawn Johnson is plucky and she's cute. That's how you want your U.S. gymnasts. |
| 9:30
| What happened to the Romania gymnastics program? It's in shambles. It hasn't really been the same since Bela Karolyi left. |
| 9:31
| Georgia's president claims that Russian tanks are still on the move through his country. He was on CNN earlier this morning. Someone had the wrong mic on at CNN, you can hear someone fiddling with papers or something. Georgia however did crush Russia in their beach volleyball match today. |
| 9:32
| PETA has asked Pope Benedict to stop wearing ermine fur on his Pope garb. Steve misread that earlier and though it said "urine" |
| 9:33
| Prince Charles said today that if genetically modified crops are the future of food production you can count him out. Buzz doesn't know what that means, will he stop eating? |
| 9:34
| The Unibomber is objecting to the use of his tiny cabin at the Newseum in Washington, DC. Maybe he didn't like it being called "tiny". How about quaint? |
| 9:35
| Meanwhile in Detroit, the Michigan Chronicle is calling for mayor Kwame Kilpatrick to resign. Does Buzz have any news audio that Steve can understand? Everyone has an accent today. |
| Didn't Hans have some trouble in Detroit once? He got put in a dumpster didn't he? Hans doesn't really want to talk about that. He never wants to talk about any of this stuff but the stories are always good. |
| 9:37
| The year was 1967 and Hans had been here for a year. He was actually in front of the draft board, they wanted to enlist him for Vietnam. At the time he was working at a ski resort in Michigan. He was a sexy ski instructor right? |
| 9:38
| Hans was already an officer in the Swiss Army, the worst thing they have to do is guard the Pope. The night before they were appearing in front of the draft board they went to a Red Wings game. |
| 9:39
| They went by a flashy nightclub and it was $15 to get in. They didn't have $15 to go see a show. Was it a nudie show or something? 4 guys came and jumped and pushed him out of the window in a garbage can filled with boxes. That probably saved his life. |
| 9:40
| Hans came to in the hospital and his shoulder hurt. He had a doctor friend who lived nearby, he picked him up and put his shoulder in a sling. So he was in a sling to face the draft board the next day. |
| 9:41
| Hans told the draft board that he was from a neutral country, didn't speak much English and didn't have a Green Card. They told him they were going to call him within the next year but never did. |
| 9:50
| On Saturday Hans had 10 ladies at the restaurant. Were they dancing with 9 lords leaping? The ladies are all fans of the show and they said they love hearing Hans. |
| 9:51
| They asked Hans why he says "auf weinerschnitzel". Did he really have to explain that to them? Doesn't everyone know what it means? It comes from auf weidershen. |
| 9:52
| Auf means you're leaving and weidershen means "I might be back" so it's sort of like a German aloha. |
| 9:53
| Also, Bernie Federco and his wife were at the restaurant on Saturday. Who? Bernie played for the St. Louis Blues. Oh, that Bernie Federco! He's a listener to the show as well. |
| 9:54
| Bernie's wife asked Hans what his favorite food is, or more specifically what his last meal would be. So if Hans went on a spree and killed 15 people, what would his meal be before the execution? |
| 9:55
| Hans would have to go with a bone-in prime rib. No starches? Hans might have some mashed potatoes plain. Buzz is very interested in the concept of Hans' last meal. |
| 9:56
| Buzz would probably go with a twice-baked potato. Hans thinks they're overrated, as does Steve. It's just mashed potatoes shoved into a potato skin. It's not even baked twice! |
| 9:57
| Hans explains to Buzz how to make a twice baked potato. After making mashed potatoes you mix them together with some sour cream. Then you put that in a pastry bag along with some bacon and chives. Steve loves Hans and he knows he's talking right to Buzz but he needs to talk into the mic. He's like one of those guys who looks at you while he's talking and driving. |
| 9:58
| Caller Bill is up in Lake Zurich, we're going with the German theme. Bill was looking for a pronunciation of spaetzel. His mom says it one way and he says it the other way. |
| 9:59
| As it turns out both pronunciations are correct, it just depends on the region. The Swiss say it differently than the Germans. Steve can't believe Bill and his mom argue about the correct pronunciation of spaetzel. |
