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| 5:32
| "Buzz Kilman, Buzz Kilman he is here with the news. Buzz Kilman, he also likes to play the blues" Steve's writing up new lyrics everyday to add to the opening theme song. |
| 5:33
| Somewhere someone is jotting all those lyrics down. The entire show is transcribed and sent over to the Broadcast Hall of Fame in Bruce DuMont's trunk. |
| 5:34
| Steve got a letter from Bruce last week telling him he didn't make it into the Broadcast Hall of Fame. He already knew that, it was in all the papers! |
| 5:35
| It used to be that your peers voted you into the Hall of Fame but now people can just go on the air and ask their listeners to vote for them. |
| 5:36
| Steve doesn't want to be in the Hall of Fame so from now on he's going to reject their nominations. When he gets the Fed Ex saying he's been nominated he's going to send them back a Fed Ex that says "I don't want to be nominated" |
| 5:37
| Steve did some sort of half-assed thing when he was nominated this year. He didn't want to talk about it so Todd Cavanah suggested an email blast. A lot of big plans fall by the wayside. Although if Todd went through with the email blast then it didn't work. |
| 5:38
| Howie Carr, who's on the air in Boston, got in instead of Steve, he does a lot of really bad bits. Steve has a list of them somewhere. He does some bit about Mexican drivers that's horrible. |
| 5:39
| Buzz has noticed that stuff like that seems to be more accepted in Boston. It does seem like it's still a white man's stronghold. Buzz noticed something similar in Australia where prejudice against the Aborigines is totally acceptable. Of course, that's why Midnight Oil wrote that Bed's Are Burning song. |
| 5:40
| Buzz saw Tropic Thunder over the weekend and Robert Downey Jr. plays an Australian actor playing a black guy. Steve is surprised he didn't see Buzz, he was outside protesting the film's use of the word "retard" or the r-word as Cheryl Burton referred to it as. |
| 5:41
| Buzz assumed that the retard thing would be running gag throughout the entire movie but it really wasn't. There was one scene between Robert Downey Jr. and Ben Stiller. |
| 5:42
| OK, one of the bits that Howie Carr does is called Illegal Immigrant Roll Call. Carr reads the names of traffic violators with Hispanic names from the police blotter. Right there even Buzz can tell that's wrong and he doesn't always know what's wrong and what isn't. |
| 5:43
| The name of the offender is read in an exaggerated Spanish-accented voice along with the violation. After each name is read Carr plays a few bars of La Cucaracha as played by a car horn. |
| 5:44
| Does Steve really want to be in the Hall of Fame next that guy? This is why he's rejecting it from now on. And all the people who think that's a funny bit voted him into the Hall of Fame. |
| 5:45
| This isn't sour grapes on Steve's part either. But he is becoming like the Ron Santo of the Broadcast Hall of Fame. "OH NO!" |
| 5:46
| Is Ron Santo ever going to get into the Hall of Fame? It seems like he'd go in at least on a sympathy vote. To Buzz it seems like a national disgrace. There are Cubs fans everywhere. |
| 5:47
| Steve's not sure if Santo has the numbers to get into the Hall of Fame. Does he have the numbers Pete? Pete thinks he does and he's not just being sentimental. Sandberg should have dragged Santo in with him. |
| 5:48
| We didn't even get the drama of Santo's rejection this year. It's actually every couple of years so we didn't get to see it this year. |
| 5:49
| When Santo answers the phone it'll be on a phone Steve bought him. The first time he got rejected Steve noticed that he was using a very old cordless phone with a telescoping antenna. Steve sent him a new phone and he was very appreciative. |
| 5:50
| Pete thinks Steve should update Santo with an iPhone and a Bluetooth. Ernie Banks has the Bluetooth, he wears it all the time. What's the deal with people wearing those Bluetooth headsets all the time? Who thinks they're that important? |
| 5:51
| Steve can't ever get his Bluetooth to work. There's a button you're supposed to press to make things happen and he can ever find it. Then he forgets to charge it. He's better off not answering his phone. |
| 5:57
| Steve has the iPhone, the new 3G, and he uses it for texting. He sent out a Twitter this morning about Tom Thayer being on the show tonight. Tom will be calling in to analyze the Bears fine work out in Seattle on Saturday. |
| 5:58
| Steve has the Bears down for 4 victories this year and that's pushing it. It's not just because of the QB situation either, the whole thing sucks. Steve's sure the Bears will be refunding half of his money for his season tickets. What went wrong? |
| 5:59
| We can talk about it with Tom later but for right now Steve will say that the Bears shouldn't have gotten rid of Ron Rivera. It seems like the defense was afraid of him, as opposed to a shrimpy guy from the south who never played football. Also, Ron Turner is an idiot and Lovie Smith can't see that Ron Turner is an idiot. Steve could go on and on talking about the Bears and he has until January to do it. |
| 6:00
| So Steve has the iPhone but he usually just sends text messages and plays Scrabble against the computer. The computer is the best Scrabble player ever though, it knows all the words. Steve was very happy just to beat the computer once. |
| 6:01
| Steve has become a better Scrabble player by playing against the computer. He's learned a lot of words that he didn't know were words like Xa and Xi. |
| 6:02
| Just ahead of news time, the Sox took two of three from the A's this weekend and tonight they host Seattle. Whenever you host Seattle you have to make sure you have good coffee. Steve will not be attending that game because the people from the country club are coming over to inspect it. They have to make sure he's not black, jewish or white trash but he's all three. |
| 6:03
| Steve has a lunch today at noon with the Jiffy Lube people if Buzz would like to stop by. Steve has all his meetings in the building at the Quizno's where ironically you can get a sandwich in a jiffy. Steve has another lunch with advertisers tomorrow, he's quite the workhorse. |
| 6:04
| Steve's going to the Sox game on Wednesday, it's an afternoon game. Then golf lessons on Thursday afternoon and the Bears game on Thursday night. It's quite an exciting week Steve has lined up for himself. |
| 6:05
| The Cubs of course won yesterday, they win every game. Why even bother playing the games, they're just wasting everyone's time. The Cubs came back and scored something like 7 runs in one inning. Pete says it was 8. |
| 6:05
| So the Cubs took two of three from the Marlins which is good for them because they usually don't play well in Florida. And the Sox haven't taken a series in Oakland in a while either. Both the Marlins and the A's play in horrible stadiums. In Oakland they took tarp and covered up a bunch of the upper deck seats knowing they'd never sell them. |
| 6:06
| Of course the Bears lost and Michael Phelps came away with 8 gold medals. Steve's a little disappointed that Phelps didn't also have 8 world records but he barely won on Saturday. It was very exciting, he got it by 1/10th of a second. |
| 6:07
| Buzz heard that Phelps' mom collapsed on Saturday because she thought he lost. His mom Ginny Sac? She looks just like Ginny Sac from The Sopranos, hiding candy bars in the basement. |
| 6:08
| Buzz thought that the other guy won on Saturday and it still looks like that when he sees it. Is he a Communist or something? Didn't Buzz see the NBC breakdown of the finish? They have two different means of timing the event and in both Phelps won. |
| 6:09
| Steve didn't hear anything about Phelps' mom collapsing though. Buzz actually heard it on NBC but he can't find anything about it. Pete didn't hear anything about the collapse either. Steve actually did see it live and he did think Phelps won but he's an American. Buzz is a man without a country, unable to fly anyone's flag. |
| 6:10
| News with Buzz |
| 6:11
| Florida is preparing for Tropical Storm Fay, it is still a tropical storm at this point but winds are up to 50 mph and it's expected to be a hurricane by the time it reaches the Florida Keys. This is the first year that Buzz didn't schedule his trip to the Caribbean during the "Mean Season" |
| 6:12
| Pervez Musharaf has announced he will resign rather than face impeachment in Pakistan. |
| 6:13
| Russia has agreed to begin withdrawing troops from Georgia and Condoleezza Rice hopes that this time they mean it. |
| 6:14
| Charging people to cross from Mexico to California is something being considered by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger. He's hoping it will help fund infrastructure. Is that done anywhere? What kind of infrastructure, just near the border or everywhere in California? |
| 6:15
| Ellen DeGeneres and longtime girlfriend Portia di Rossi are now married. They tied the knot at Ellen's Beverly Hills estate over the weekend. Has Buzz ever seen Ellen's house? It's like a compound. You make a ton of money on those syndicated shows. Judge Judy makes the most of anyone, even more than Oprah. She's a judge though so she probably negotiated a great contract for herself. |
| 6:16
| Steve did find what Buzz was talking about, Michael Phelps' mom collapsing. It's from Charles Elmore of the Palm Beach Post. So it's another Floridian. Maybe it's in the nature of Floridian's to question everything. |
| 6:17
| Phelps' mom held up two fingers thinking her son had come in second then she spread all her fingers in surprise and collapsed. Then Bob Costas said "Down goes Phelps" Steve's still guessing that Phelps' mom didn't collapse and Costas was probably doing Howard Cosell. |
| 6:18
| Samuel L. Jackson, Chris Rock and Cedric the Entertainer were among the thousands who came to Chicago's Southside to attend the funeral of Bernie Mac. |
| 6:19
| The Cook County sheriff's department staged a sting over the weekend to net people with outstanding warrants. More than 100 people responded to the promise of rebate checks. One person, who had been caught in other stings, said this was the best one he'd ever been a part of. |
| 6:20
| Emil Jones is expected to announce his resignation as Senate President today. Jones has been a longtime ally of Governor Blagojevich. Buzz isn't sure what kind of implications this will have for Blago but he's sure there will be some. |
| 6:21
| A tiny Texas school district may be the first in the country to allow teachers and students to begin packing heat. |
| 6:28
| It seems like Phelps' mom sat down and did collapse. Would Buzz agree with that? He didn't see it but Pete concurs that she sat down. It sent Buzz off on a wild goose chase but it wouldn't be the first. |
| 6:29
| When Buzz hears tragedy he thinks the worst. He must have had Aimee grab him some tequila and guacamole because it was going to be a long night. |
| 6:30
| Alright we've got Brendan out and about today but there's not much going on today. He's at Union Station, is he going to get on the Burlington and go see his mom? Does she still live out by Steve? |
| 6:31
| Brendan's mom lives in the city now but Brendan grew up out by Steve. He still takes the Burlington out there when he's visiting friends or when they ask him to speak at his alma mater, Lyons Township. He's on the LT Hall of Fame right next to David Hasselhoff. |
| 6:32
| It's going to be really hard to top what Brendan did on Friday. Did he end up bedding Florence Henderson? Sadly their relationship ended at the air show. Did Brendan let it drop? Because the word is she likes younger men. And Brendan has a Greg Brady feel to him. |
| 6:33
| So Brendan is out at Union Station standing outside the Snuggery. Is that The Snuggery Snuggery? Like the original one? Steve used to play something called Snugfest out in the suburbs, that was a good time. |
| 6:34
| You have to think the guy who owned The Snuggery wouldn't give up that name, why not put one in a train station, you can bring alcohol on the train. Metra could make a lot of money selling alcohol on the train. |
| 6:35
| Steve used to take the train a lot more often when he was drinking. He used to get a double Jack Daniels until he discovered there was a bathroom on the train, then he got two doubles. So he already had four shots of Jack by the time the train arrived at his stop. |
| 6:36
| Does Brendan still have that rig with the microphone hooked up to nothing? There's a device you can buy that hooks a mic up to a phone and the sends encoded data back here. Todd hasn't pulled the trigger on it yet but Steve would like Brendan to have a better set-up, it would legitimize him. Maybe they should spend less money on the empty beer cups and more money on this rig. |
| 6:37
| Caller Dan thinks he knows The Snuggery that Steve is talking about, it closed about 10 years ago but it was on Waukegan just off the Edens. |
| 6:38
| Caller Dean is currently on the Metra Milwaukee line and his outbound train has a bar car. They have a cooler in the vestibule of one of the cars. As far as Dean knows there are no bar cars on any of the other North Shore lines. |
| 6:39
| From time to time the Metra train hits someone and then the bar car has it's best day of the week. That's because they have to stop the train for 3 hours to investigate. What's the investigate? Most likely the person is dead. |
| 6:40
| How does Dean listen on the train? He has a little radio that sort of looks like an iPod. Dean likes the show so much that he did research into portable radios to find out which one got the best reception. |
| 6:41
| Dean settled on something made by Sangean, it's Swedish. Steve appreciates Dean's concerted effort. When Dean gets into Union Station Brendan needs to give him a big Steve Dahl Show hug. |
| 6:42
| Just a tip for Brendan, he might want to stand in front of a place that's open. Just something to think about, that's all Steve's saying. |
| 6:49
| Live read: NBC |
| 6:50
| Steve and Buzz have been invited to the big NBC launch party in Hollywood. They're piling in the station van and driving out there. Actually it's just Steve and he's taking listeners too. |
| 6:51
| Steve is really going out to LA to attend the party, Brendan will be handling the interviews. That leaves Steve time to party. If Christian Slater wants to go to Fat Burger Steve can't be in the middle of an interview. |
| 6:52
| Buzz heard last week that Fat Burger is coming to Chicago. Kanye West is bringing them here. They're not really that good actually. |
| 6:53
| That was Bill Murray from Friday after his big tandem parachute jump. It was very exciting and he was excited. |
| 6:54
| It's time for another Olympics special report with Beijing Gay. Is Ben on a good connection? Does it sound like he's right in the room? It's 2 in the afternoon in China, Ben just had himself a big bowl of noodles. Ben is wrong about the time, it's almost 8 pm. Turns out he had that bowl of noodles hours ago. Time flies when you're covering all these events. |
| 6:55
| Ben has three audio cuts he'd like to play. The first is China's hurdler Liu Xiang pulling out of the 110m hurdles. He was nursing an Achilles injury. |
| 6:56
| The next piece of audio is from the trampolining event. This is also what it sounds like in Ben's bedroom on any given weekend night. |
| 6:57
| Finally, did Buzz watch any of the badminton? The Indonesian are awesome at badminton. The pro circuit in that country is really something. The men's double's team won and then tackled their coach. It was hot. |
| 6:58
| Even after a grueling game of badminton you still have a lot of energy left. It's not that hard. You play badminton with a shuttlecock although some call it a birdie. |
| 6:59
| Buzz played badminton as a youth but eventually he wandered from the. It's boring, that's probably why. It's a weird hybrid of tennis and volleyball. |
| 7:00
| More from Beijing later with Beijing Gay, now to Buzz in the newsroom. |
| 7:01
| News with Buzz |
| 7:02
| Tropical storm Fay could arrive in the Florida Keys by tonight. A mandatory evacuation order has been issued for all non-residents. |
| 7:03
| Pakistani president Pervez Musharraf has resigned rather than face impeachment. He believes his impending impeachment was owed to his savior complex. |
| 7:04
| Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez is praising Russia's military maneuvers in Georgia. In the past Chavez has used money from Venezuelan oil to purchase weapons from Russia. |
| 7:05
| Barack Obama is expected to announce his running mate this week. No longer on that list is former senator John Edwards. The National Enquirer is now saying they have new photographs and video which further incriminate Edwards but they're not saying anything specific. |
| 7:06
| Steve has part of the story here, there's a photo of Edwards cradling a baby, wearing a sweat-stained t-shirt. It doesn't say where the photo was taken but he was seen wearing that same shirt a a gym in New York. Maybe that's his sexin' shirt. |
| 7:07
| Michael Phelps won his 8th gold medal over the weekend. Meanwhile U.S. gymnast Nastia Luikin won a bronze. |
| 7:08
| One of two men connect to a New Year's day tiger attack at the San Francisco Zoo was sentenced to 16 months in prison for probation violation. |
| 7:09
| Paul Dhaliwal and his brother Kulbir survived that tiger attack. You think Kulbir's nickname is Kool Breeze? You probably don't have much to work with on Dhaliwal. |
| 7:10
| Their friend Carlos Sousa Jr died when a Siberian tiger attacked him on New Year's Day of 2007. Is he related to John Phillip Sousa in anyway? |
| 7:11
| At Sox games, when they have Ken Griffey Jr. in the line-up his name is listed as Griffey Jr. on the scoreboard. But Griffey is his last name. He's Ken Jr. It's not like anyone is going to mistake him for his dad who no longer plays. Although based on how he's been playing lately Steve wouldn't mind seeing his dad. |
| 7:12
| Mike and Dawn Speck's wedding went off without a hitch earlier this month, except for a lightning strike that zapped the groom in his back yard before the ceremony. |
| 7:13
| Speck survived the strike as well as a previous lightning strike 15 years earlier. It seems like once you get struck by lightning it happens more than once, like Lee Trevino. |
| 7:14
| The Chicago Air & Water Show reportedly had over 3 million people in attendance this year. It seems like they say that every year though. Among the festivities were Bill Murray jumping out of an airplane and Florence Henderson singing the National Anthem. |
| 7:15
| Steve has to give Bill Murray kudos, he doesn't think he'd every jump out of a plane. It was so weird for Buzz to see Murray on the cover of the Sun-Times after his jump. |
| 7:16
| Steve really feels good as a taxpayer when he sees those airplanes. Imagine having one of those things actually coming to get you because you've done something bad. |
| 7:17
| Alright we now go live to Brendan Greeley who's at Union Station this morning. He's been talking to commuters. Is that it? |
| 7:18
| Brendan recorded those interviews and he can replay them now. |
| 7:19
| Brendan spoke with Mary who rides in on the Joliet line, knitting and napping to pass the time. She sounds very friendly. |
| 7:20
| Should you be allowed to have knitting needles on a train, it seems like it would be a weapon. And she's knitting and napping instead of listening to the show, chalk one up for us. |
| 7:31
| When you hear all the Bears highlights together they don't sound as inept as they appeared to be to Steve. |
| 7:32
| This is the first time Tom has called in after not watching the tape of the game. It did sound really exciting though. it wasn't that exciting when Steve was watching it though. |
| 7:33
| The Bears are still pretty exciting on defense and special teams. We still have a third phase of the game that needs to work. That's the offense right? Because Steve's a member of the fourth phase and he's good to go. |
| 7:34
| Even Steve's guy Caleb Hanie wasn't getting things down on Saturday. He wasn't put into a great situation with that crowd in Seattle, sitting on the bench for two quarters. |
| 7:35
| It's very different from last week against the Chiefs at Soldier Field. He wasn't that bad on Saturday though. Today in the Trib Rick Morrissey said there was no harm in letting Caleb start against the 49ers. Steve got it all started, he pushed that snowball down the hill. |
| 7:36
| The Bears got in very early yesterday so it was sort of a wasted day but they're back to practice today so we'll see how they prepare for Thursday. The 49ers also had to travel from Green Bay to San Francisco but they're coming off a pretty dominating win against he Packers. That Aaron Rodgers thing is not working out. |
| 7:37
| It's still very possible for the Bears to win the division. Right now John Kitna is probably the best starting QB in the division. His supporting staff isn't what it is on the other teams in the division though. |
| 7:38
| So what do the Bears do to fix the offense? Right now it's on-field competition and they need to pick a QB and start building a first unit. If your first unit is Kyle Orton, Matt Forte, Des Clark, Greg Olsen and whoever else then just go with that. |
| 7:39
| What about Des Clark, have they said anything about his injury? Hopefully it's a sprained knee which means he'll sit out the rest of the preseason, that's no big deal and it allows the Bears to get Olsen and Kellen Davis in more games. That Kellen Davis is a scary-looking dude. |
| 7:40
| You know who else is scary is that dude who blocked the field goal, Darrell McClover. You do not want to see a guy that big coming at you. Tom says he's yoked. Is that what Steve and Tom are going for at the East Bank Club? |
| 7:41
| McClover has always been a great special teams player. With Brandon Ayanbadejo leaving the team the Bears have been looking for that top special teams guy. |
| 7:42
| There were some good plays on defense on Saturday but they spent a lot of time on the field and by the end of the game they were worn out. |
| 7:43
| Steve doesn't feel very good about the Bears offense at all, from the players to the game plan. |
| 7:44
| Rex took a pounding on Saturday, over and above his normal pounding. Tom thought Rex threw the ball pretty but he had some drops and an interception in those first 4 series and he never had a chance to get settled in. |
| 7:45
| It seemed like Kyle Orton had more protection when he was in or was that just because he stepped up into the pocket more? |
| 7:46
| Steve actually felt bad for Rex on Saturday. He even got an owie on his nose! It can't be easy for him to face the media after a game either. |
| 7:47
| Steve has to give Rex credit for going out there and facing them after every game like that. Rex is a competitor but at some point that only gets you so far. |
| 7:48
| So who's going to start on Thursday then? Usually in the third preseason game you go with the team that you're going to start in the first regular season game. Everyone says the first two games are dress rehearsals which Tom is sick of hearing. |
| 7:49
| If you're a team that is set in all positions then the third game is probably who you're starting the season with. The Bears aren't set offensively yet. So is it Kyle or is it Rex? |
| 7:50
| Tom thinks it'll be Kyle but that doesn't mean it's his job for life. A lot of guys on the offense should go out there think this job is their's to keep. |
| 7:51
| Steve always gets irritated when Kyle or Rex has an opportunity to step up and dazzle everyone but then never do that. But it occurred to him on Saturday that the offense is set up so they can't dazzle anyone. |
| 7:52
| The only way for someone to dazzle anyone is to stop running the plays that are called. The Bears have a bigger window of evaluation through practices. When you go into a preseason game in a place like Seattle you have to lose what you learn in practice and evaluate them that way. |
| 7:53
| No one has made any incredible plays on offense that shows they've made major strides. Every time you put someone in at QB they're being constantly evaluated against the other guy. It's hard to go out there and try to win a job, plus make your teammates look better and call a play. |
| 7:54
| You can say Kyle will be the starter and start getting him into a comfort zone with his receivers. At least then you'd have a direction to go in. Then everyone can get used to what he does best and gravitate towards that. |
| 7:55
| If you look at the Brett Favre situation, he developed all of these nonverbal indicators with his receivers in Green Bay. If Tom was in a huddle he and Hilgie had ways of communicating. Those are the same things that the starting QB needs the opportunity to start developing. So pick someone already! |
| 7:56
| Steve keeps hoping that the Bears are just pretending to struggle offensively as a decoy. Tom's getting tired of shooting the decoys, he wants to shoot the real ducks. |
| 7:57
| Tom needs to go look at the game tape again. It seemed to Steve like there were a few pockets that Rex could have stepped into that he didn't. |
| 7:58
| Rex has said that he wants to work on stepping into the pocket more. Rex needs to know his protection though, he needs to know every play and where every guy on the line is. And that's not asking Rex to do any more than any other QB does. |
| 7:59
| We're going to talk to Tom again on Friday since the next Bears game is Thursday. Steve's ready for another workout day this week, he wants to be yoked! |
| 8:00 | Tom and Jeff do a fine job calling those Bears games. You heard those highlights, they made a crappy game sound exciting. |
| 8:01
| Steve's a little disappointed with Caleb Hanie. Although he feels that the way the Bears work, when they see even a glimmer of hope in a guy like Caleb Hanie they give him some really bad plays to run. They don't need a third stringer in the mix. |
| 8:08
| Live read: Townstone Financial |
| 8:09
| It would be nice if someone somewhere would make a decision about the Bears QB. It seems like the fact that Rex is a free agent next year and Kyle is still under contract is helpful in that decision. Steve has no doubt that if the Bears have a bad season they'll rebate some of his money. |
| 8:10
| Alright it's time for the Eight O'Clock Taco Bell. On the phone is Luis from the Taco Bell in Sycamore. |
| 8:11
| The Chicken Melts are selling very well at the Sycamore Taco Bell. Luis prefers the Chicken Melt, it's just a little spicier. You have to keep things spicy in Sycamore. |
| 8:12
| News with Buzz |
| 8:13
| Tropical storm Fay has hit Cuba with sustained winds of 50 mph or more. It's expected to hit the Florida Keys tonight with near-hurricane like force. Near-hurricane? Get back to Steve when it's a hurricane. We've had 50 mph winds in Chicago. |
| 8:14
| The storm has caused 5 deaths so far throughout the Caribbean but down there you're a stiff breeze away from the destruction of your house. They've declared a state of emergency in Florida. Why?! It's not even a hurricane yet. |
| 8:15
| You want to talk about water, look at the Grand Canyon. Now that is a state of a emergency. |
| 8:16
| President Bush called Michael Phelps to congratulate him on his 8 gold medals. That's what you get when you win 8 medals. Phelps set the record for most gold medals at a single Olympics game. |
| 8:17
| Chinese customs officials confiscated hundreds of Bibles from four Americans planning to pass them out. |
| 8:18
| Barack Obama is expected to choose his running mate by the end of this week. Over the weekend Obama gave his stance on abortion. |
| 8:19
| There's an effort underway in Massachusetts to bring back a 1913 law that doesn't recognize a marriage if it's not recognized in the state you are from. That probably didn't pertain to same sex marriage in 1913. |
| 8:20
| A TV bounty hunter says he'll post bail for the mother of a missing Florida girl. Casey Anthony is being held in the June disappearance of her daughter Caylee. Leonard Padilla believes if she's out of jail she will open up more about the whereabouts of her daughter. This is the woman who waited a month before reporting that her daughter was missing. |
| 8:21
| Actor Craig Robinson is facing felony drug charges. Robinson appears on The Office and he also turned in a fine performance in Pineapple Express. What drugs was he allegedly in possession of? He had some X and some meth. Those are just party drugs! |
| 8:22
| City officials say 3.1 million people attended the Air & Water Show over the weekend. They believe the large turnout was due to the appearance of Bill Murray at the show on Friday as well as Florence Henderson. |
| 8:30
| Alright the Sox and Cubs both took their series in Oakland and Florida respectively last week. The Cubs are off today while the Sox host Seattle. |
| 8:31
| Let's go to Brendan now, he's at Union Station talking to listeners and spreading the word. Not the word of our savior Jesus Christ although he can do that if he likes. |
| 8:32
| Brendan is standing at the top of the stairs in Union Station, he's pretty sure this is where they filmed the scene from The Untouchables. He'd like to recreate that now but he might need a few more people. Steve would prefer Brendan just hurl himself down the stairs. |
| 8:33
| Brendan was able to interview two more commuters, they were really hot black chicks. Did he grind them? Is it too early to grind? Brendan didn't think he should grind right there plus there was no music. Has that ever stopped him before? |
| 8:34
| Does Brendan even ask if they're listeners or does he just go right into work the girls? He blocks Steve right out. |
| 8:35
| Then Brendan steals Steve's eye opener joke. He's working chicks with Steve's jokes! |
| 8:36
| When Brendan said they were sisters Steve thought he met sistahs. They were both. Could Steve tell how hot they were? |
| 8:37
| Brendan has been trying to ask people if they've seen any Risky Business-style debauchery but so far no one has seen anything. |
| 8:38
| When Brendan told those girls Steve was going to buy them drinks he meant that he'd buy them drinks on the corporate card right? |
| 8:39
| OK Brendan, well keep up whatever it is you're doing over there. He's just trying to brighten the moods of some Monday commuters. And it doesn't hurt to try to work some black chicks. |
| 8:40
| Brendan is the only guy we can send to the train station and it's empty. He's sleeping on a bench somewhere. |
| 8:41
| Caller Sue doesn't have all the information but there's a song she runs to called I'm Out Here Grindin', her daughter downloaded it for her. There's a clean version, it could be perfect for Brendan. |
| 8:42
| Steve has the song right here actually, it couldn't be more perfect. Steve's going to give Sue $100 of Lettuce Entertain You gift certificates for that. |
| 8:43
| That song is perfect although Steve likes the lonesome train whistle since Brendan seems alone. Buzz would like to use both. That's more work for Steve but he'll do it. |
| 8:50
| It's Peanut Butter Jelly Time. Pat should have put some aviator sunglasses on when he went on his ride-along over the weekend. Pat lived which is good, what does pulling 4 Gs mean? People always say that, Steve has no idea what 1 G is. |
| 8:51
| Steve knows it's about the force of gravity but he doesn't know how to relate that to anything. Pat also met Florence Henderson, she went up with the Lima Lima pilots. Did he bed her? |
| 8:52
| Pat was in a waiting room before he went up with Florence and a few other women. He told his cameraman to get some footage of Florence but he didn't know who she was. Our own Vicki, who's only 20, also didn't know who she was. |
| 8:52
| Steve was born in 1953 and he still knows about World War II. Maybe the Brady Bunch isn't as important as World War II but it was a very popular show. |
| 8:53
| When Steve was driving to Michigan on Friday he passed by the Gary Airport. That formation of 4 different kinds of planes went right over the tollway, that was enough of an Air & Water Show for Steve. That way he doesn't have to contend with the 3.1 million people who came out. |
| 8:54
| There's no way 3.1 million people come to watch the Air & Water Show. That's half of the metro area! Half a million would be impressive but 3.1 million is impossible. The Pope can't even draw that crowd. |
| 8:55
| If you're down in Chicago you get to see the planes practicing all week anyway. Steve doesn't care about the water portion of the show anyway. Friday has always been a dress rehearsal but this year they actually told the public to come down and watch it. That's probably because they had the Lt. Dan Band playing. |
| 8:56
| How much do you think the city had to pay that knucklehead to play at the Air & Water Show? At least $50K right? Steve and Buzz would have done it for $5K. Plus they probably set the whole thing up for him, he just has to show up. It probably didn't cost anything to get Florence Henderson out there, she's getting paid by that water purification company to appear. |
| 8:57
| To Steve's credit he did not bring up the fact that the government was researching whether or not there are dangerous chemicals in those hard plastic bottles she was handing out. |
| 8:58
| Nor did Steve bring up how much he enjoys drinking water out of a bottle and then throwing it away, knowing he's contributing to a global problem. Steve has actually started to refill his bottle but it doesn't taste the same when you go from Evian to tap water. Buzz goes from Gatorade to tap water and you never get rid of that Gatorade taste. |
| 8:59
| Steve prefers to drink Evian or that Smart Water. It's electrolyte enhanced and made from the clouds. It tastes better than spring water, which animals poop in. That's basically what it says on the Smart Water label, animals are swimming in there and you know what happens then. |
| 9:00
| That doesn't happen if the water is made in the clouds though, animals can't poop in the clouds. What about if you're in a 747 over Chicago and they dump the lavatory? That doesn't happen all the time though. |
| 9:01
| Alright time for sports. The Sox won two in a row in Oakland for the first time since 2005. Unfortunately the Twins keep winning, that's no good. |
| 9:02
| The Twins are about to embark on a huge 14-game road trip because of the Republican National Convention. So the Sox should be able put some distance between themselves and the Twins. |
| 9:03
| The Sox could have swept the series but they lost it in the 9th on Friday. That was a brutal loss. |
| 9:04
| Meanwhile the Cubs went 5-1 on their road trip, that's big especially in Florida. That ballpark is depressing. There are more people in the dugouts than in the stands! Plus you've got those orange and teal seats everywhere. |
| 9:05
| Pat does think that the Cubs struggle down there because of the lack of fans at the games. It was probably a mistake for the Marlins to buy two championships right off the bat. What else is there left to do now? The fans have better things to do like boating or fishing. |
| 9:06
| The Cubs were down 2-0 yesterday after some offensive problems on Saturday. They sent 12 batters to the plate in the 7th to score 8 runs. |
| 9:07
| Ryan Dempster won his 14th game yesterday. Every time there's a Cubs cut from the road you can hear all the Cubs fans in the stands. They're America's team as opposed to the Sox who are the local team. That's how the Sox should market themselves. |
| 9:08
| The Bears new ad campaign is "One Town, One Team". It's not "We suck"? The Bears know they're competing with the Cubs and Sox more this year than they normally are. |
| 9:09
| Pat heard Steve talking to Tom earlier and he pretty much summed everything up. |
| 9:12
| Steve wants to forget about the Bears, they'll be lucky to win 4 games this year. Let's focus on Lou Canelis who is the biggest tool in the history of tools. |
| 9:13
| Pat has to work with Lou, he probably doesn't want to get involved in this. Hopefully Pete has put together a nice montage of Lou's sideline reportage so far in this preseason. |
| 9:14
| That guy should go back to scouting martini bars with Janet Davies. He can't come back to sports once you have the stink of Janet Davies on you. You can't go back to sports from that. |
| 9:15
| The Bears Kool-Aid was flowing on the sidelines on Saturday in Seattle. He was saying a lot of obvious stuff. Erik Kramer is not great up in the booth either, he might want to go to 190 North. |
| 9:16
| Does Pete have any Lou Canelis? Steve would at least like an acknowledgement from Pete. What's wrong in there? Is he being held at gunpoint? |
| 9:17
| Pete is feverishly working to find some more Lou audio. Steve had a few things he remembered from Erik Kramer calling the game. First he said that there hasn't been many Bears QBs wearing #12 that can scramble well. That requires people to remember he was #12. Steve unfortunately did. |
| 9:18
| The other thing Kramer did was go on and on about how he wishes there was a way to show people what it's like to be on special teams. If you're watching the game you're seeing that! It's up to Kramer to describe it. |
| 9:19
| Finally Michael Phelps won his 8th gold medal at the Beijing Games, that's a new record. Pat can't believe that Phelps was in 7th place and then he turned it around and won. |
| 9:20
| Saturday's primetime broadcast drew 30 million viewers, it's their largest audience since an episode of the Golden Girls spinoff Empty Nest. That seems like an unnecessary fact for NBC to reveal. |
| 9:28
| Live read: Windy City Limo |
| 9:29
| That was one example of Lou Canelis' fine work on Saturday. He was reporting on the absence of Rashied Davis who was with his wife and newborn child. First of all, why is he missing that game, unless he's her obstetrician? |
| 9:30
| Lou said that the new child has changed Rashied's life. That was just one of the many examples of Lou's ineptitude. |
| 9:31
| Lou also had a fine interview with Lovie Smith before halftime. Steve doesn't necessarily need it now, he'd like to revel in the Lou Canelis reporting with Pete. Steve knows how much Pete loves when he says that Lou is a nose passing as a sportscaster. |
| 9:32
| Pete is gone again, he's back to listening to something in his studio. He's going to need to go ahead and check into Northwestern after the show today. |
| 9:33
| Pete is giving Steve a little too much behind the scenes information. It scares Steve to know that much about Pete's thought process. It makes him worry about his own future. |
| 9:34
| Alright we've got Brendan out at Union Station. Steve's going to go with I'm Out There Grinding for Brendan's theme song. |
| 9:35
| WHOA! How can this be the clean version and have the n-word? You can't say that! Steve and Buzz can't say that for sure. Really no one can say it. |
| 9:36
| Well until that song is edited Steve's going to go with the lonesome train whistle when he talks to Brendan. It'll be a good theme song for him when it's edited though. |
| 9:37
| The morning rush period is now over at Union Station. Thanks Lou Canelis Jr.! |
| 9:38
| Apparently Brendan doesn't talk when the track announcements are being made. They're a sacred thing at the train station, Brendan respects that. |
| 9:39
| Brendan is now going to talk to some commuters to see where they're heading if Steve would like to join him. Does he have to say yes to this? |
| 9:40
| There's a statuesque blond that Brendan's going to approach right now. Her name is Britney. It seems like Brendan is creeping her out, he did sort of come up to her in her blind spot. |
| 9:41
| Britney is a personal trainer but she doesn't want to train Steve. She doesn't really want to talk about what she does. She definitely sounds like a trainer to Steve. |
| 9:42
| Brendan might be losing Britney here. What was the first sign? Brendan creeps this girl out and brings Steve and Buzz along for the ride. |
| 9:43
| That was very disappointing. Brendan is still using a mic not plugged into anything and a cellphone, that's off-putting. Girls are always aware of the bait-and-switch. |
| 9:44
| Britney was showing a lot of cleavage and she probably caught Brendan looking at it. So what? If you're putting that out there then you want people to look at it. |
| 9:45
| Buzz has seen movies where people are trying to determine if someone is an alien. If someone doesn't look at a woman's cleavage they're an alien. Buzz has seen more than one movie with a scene like that? |
| 9:46
| Brendan likes the hip-hop music of course and Michael Phelps has been listening to his iPod before every race. Steve has a track list of hip-hop songs that are on Phelps' playlist. First he has to sift through all the humor from the blogger writing about it. |
| 9:47
| Did Steve just hear someone in the background saying "That's the goofy guy" about Brendan? Then someone else recognized it was him. |
| 9:55
| There we go Pete, that's some of the Lou Canelis Steve was looking for. Pete's looking forward to even more Lou Canelis on Thursday. |
| 9:56
| Sadly when the season starts Lou will be doing some sort of Bears show with Tom and Jeff on Fox. Steve feels bad for Tom and Jeff but it'll just make them look better. Maybe Steve should layoff Lou, he doesn't want to cause trouble for Tom and Jeff. |
| 9:57
| Steve didn't like Jim Miller on the Comcast Bears post game stuff but eventually he was won over. That probably won't happen with Lou. |
| 9:58
| Alright time for the web poll. Today's question is "Do you have a land line?" Most of the kids today do not have them. Steve's demanding that all his kids have land lines though. When we had that storm a couple of weeks ago the only thing work in Steve's house was the phone. |
| 9:59
| Comcast will begin expanding features on their land lines to make them more like cellphones. New land line phones will allow users to text and email and let you view caller ID on a TV screen. |
| 10:00
| Buzz has a late breaking story. Chicago police have made an arrest in the double murder of police officer Robert Soto and a companion. Well at least Steve and Buzz know it's not them, they're still here. |
| 10:01
| Steve's excited to hear that the home phone is coming back with exciting improvements. You need to have a land line. |
