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| 5:32
| Steve hates when people play head games with Foreigner. People must have really messed with those guys. Or maybe that's not what they're singing about at all, you never know with these rockers. |
| 5:33
| The song could mean something entirely different and maybe no one is messing with them. Of course that would be a form of messing with them and it would make a mess. |
| 5:34
| Steve once played Alpine Valley along with Foreigner. Steve's roadies went into Foreigner's dressing room and drank all their Heineken. Steve didn't have Heineken, he probably only had Jack Daniels. |
| 5:35
| Then Foreigner's roadies went into Steve's dressing room and took all of his stuff. You can't play head games with Foreigner, they're hot blooded, check it and see. So there was a sweaty, somewhat stoned Steve Dahl trying to explain to his roadies why what they did was wrong. They thought it was cool since they had backstage passes. |
| 5:36
| Around that time Steve also saw a lot of his guitars go missing. Suddenly his Gibson Flying V is gone and the roadies have no idea where it went. They're the roadies, they're supposed to know where it is! |
| 5:37
| Steve Dahl and Teenage Radiation didn't end up with the A-list roadies, or even the B-list roadies. He had guys who stole stuff and also made amateur pornos featuring themselves in a gorilla mask nailing some girl who was hanging out backstage. |
| 5:38
| This was right at the beginning of the video revolution when the camera was giant and the playback machine was giant. That's not all that was giant and it was disturbing but those days are over. |
| 5:39
| Last summer when Steve played those shows with The Nadas none of their roadies would help him. The Nadas would open the show and then they'd play as The Dahlfins. Steve's stuff was always on stage but it was never turned on. |
| 5:40
| Steve could have used his own roadie last summer. He had a listener email him and he wanted to do it but he couldn't do the next gig because he was going to be on vacation. So that was that. |
| 5:41
| It really slowed down Steve's momentum when he had to come on stage and bend over to turn his equipment on and plug his guitar into the amp. It almost made him want to leave the stage and then get introduced again. Ideally Steve would have had a wireless rig and then come on stage playing. |
| 5:42
| The Nadas had a sound guy with a mohawk who probably made pornos. A lot of your tech guys end up making the pornos because they hang around the longest after the show. |
| 5:43
| There was something on the cover of the Sun-Times yesterday that Steve kept meaning to get to but never did. It was the story about the bride and groom being tasered. There's a photo of the tasered bride right there on the cover. |
| 5:44
| The wedding was on the beach in Lakeside, Michigan. This probably happened right up the beach from Steve. The wedding reception was at an art gallery. That's so Lakeside. |
| 5:45
| The former Chicagoans who got married spent their wedding night in jail, in separate jail cells. That's hot. The groom, Andy Samora and the bride, Anna Pastuszwska were tasered and arrested at their reception. Officers from 14 police departments were on the scene. How does that happen, 14 different departments? There are a lot of little towns in that area and they probably all want to get in on the action. |
| 5:46
| Two nights after their wedding the bride and groom were against arrested and tasered while police were investigating a noise complaint. The groom was charged with pushing his new wife during that incident but the charges were later dropped. |
| 5:47
| This all played out in Harbor Country, a summer vacation area known for antiques, dune-filled beaches and sun-burned Chicagoans. Steve wouldn't say it's known for it's antiques, that's sounds gay. They're not really antiques anyway, it's just stuff like chairs made of twigs. |
| 5:48
| It rained during the couple's ceremony which always gets things off to a bad start. However wedding photographer Kacper Skowron, possibly the son of baseball legend Moose Skowron, said the party was "civilized" and "top-notch". He's probably still waiting to get paid though. |
| 5:49
| Art gallery co-owner Tom Burnison said the alcohol-fueled party got out of control and dangerous when a party guest heaved a metal lamp through a plate glass window. He probably thought he was making art. |
| 5:50
| The only local police officer on duty arrived that night and was asked by the gallery owner to break up the fight. So you've got your Barney Fife showing up to check things out. One guest was seen drinking straight out of a bottle of vodka. OH MY GOD! |
| 5:51
| The officer called for backup and told everyone the party was over. That's where you get your 14 police departments. The groom began yelling at police officers and other guests were holding him back. Then he broke free and had to be taken down. |
| 5:52
| The groom was heading for the officers and the bride moved in and tried to interfere. The women always get involved like that, it's standard drunk chick behavior. They think they're helping but they're just making things worse. |
| 5:53
| The photo on the cover of the Sun-Times yesterday was credited to Kacper Skowron. Isn't that a breach of the wedding photographer contract? It's not a very flattering photo of the bride, she's on the ground, the dress is hiked up around her waist, you can see her garter. If it wasn't cropped better you could probably see her panties. |
| 5:58
| It's usually the groom that gets hammered, it seems like that's the case in this story since he got belligerent. Maybe he's just naturally belligerent. A good bride will get hammered with you though and then jump into the fray. |
| 5:59
| Caller Rich is in Three Oaks, Michigan. How about that Dryer's Butcher Shop? They're known for their great ham and their liverbest, not liverwurst. That's how they roll up in Michigan if Buzz ever wants to come up and go antiquing with Steve and Jim Ryan. |
| 6:00
| Rich lives in Three Oaks and works for Whirlpool in St. Joe's. Does Rich ever go to that Big Boy in ? Steve is pretty sure that was the sight of a disappearance of a couple from the Chicago area. They were found later, as Steve predicted, trying to run away from their parents. |
| 6:01
| Buzz had his first double burger at Big Boy. You never forget your first double burger. Yesterday Steve was having a client lunch with one of Buzz's friends, Sheila, who is now the National Sales Manager for Jack. Steve's not sure why she brought this up at a client meeting but she said she was trying to work the Fat Burger people but then Steve bad rapped them yesterday. |
| 6:02
| Steve didn't really bad rap them, he just said it was overrated. Also, they're out in California, they're no going here this. Steve used to go to the original Fat Burger in Santa Monica. |
| 6:03
| We're in the midst of a burger explosion in the Chicago area between Fat Burger and the new Sonic drive-ins opening up. |
| 6:04
| News with Buzz |
| 6:05
| Tropical storm reached Florida early this morning without even becoming a hurricane. So why does Steve still have to watch video of people boarding up their houses? It's all guys with cigarettes and Skil saws boarding things up. |
| 6:06
| Barack Obama could name his running mate as early as tomorrow. He has reportedly made his announcement and wants to inform supporters before the media is alerted. |
| 6:07
| Violence erupted in Pakistan at Camp Salerno when Al Qaeda members attacked the compound. Is that named after Randy Salerno? |
| 6:08
| American Nastia Liukin ended up with a silver medal last night in the uneven bars. It came down to a tie-breaker between Liukin and He Kexin. HEY! Liukin lost the tie-breaker so that's the bad news for her. Also her dad probably yelled at her the entire way back to the hotel. That guy seems like a soccer dad on crack. |
| 6:09
| A photo showing for members of Argentina's women's soccer team making slit-eyed gestures has surfaced. This comes just days after a photo of Spain's men's and women's basketball teams surfaced. Who thinks that's a good idea when you're shooting that photo? Maybe in Spain they're a little more lighthearted. And maybe the Chinese don't even find it offensive. |
| 6:12
| Finally the mayor of an Australian mining town is under fire after encouraging ugly women to move into his town. He cites a shortage of women for the announcement saying they should be able to find a groom and bloom from an ugly duckling in a beautiful swan. |
| 6:13
| Caller Terry has some information for Steve and Buzz about Sonic. The first restaurant is opening today in Aurora so Buzz should gas up the Grand Prix and head out there. |
| 6:14
| There was a private grand opening party last week but it's officially opening today. Why don't Steve and Buzz ever get invited to these parties? They love Sonic! |
| 6:15
| Steve would road trip it out to Aurora but he can't go today because he has another meeting. Is Buzz going to have to look for a hotel out there, maybe somewhere in Wheaton? |
| 6:16
| Song: Heartbreaker, The Rolling Stones |
| 6:19
| That's a belated dedication to that couple up in Michigan, they now have a great foundation to build their lives on. |
| 6:20
| Buzz is really going to like that Sonic, they have a great burger. They also have the great crushed ice in their drinks. Janet loves crushed ice and they have a fridge that doesn't make crushed ice. |
| 6:21
| Janet actually bought an ice crusher and it's the loudest thing Steve has ever heard. It sounds like there's a wood chipper in their kitchen. Steve's not allowed to have any countertop appliances but Janet is. And now that Pat Dahl knows the ice crusher annoys Steve he's decided he likes it too. |
| 6:22
| Steve heard that Amy Grant actually bought Vince Gill a Sonic ice crusher because he likes it so much. If that's a larger machine that has to go in the garage Steve might be willing to buy one. |
| 6:30
| Steve's going call out to the house because he wants Buzz to hear how loud the ice crusher is. No one is answering, it seems like they're not listening. Can you blame them? |
| 6:31
| Everyone was home when Steve left. Steve also doesn't feel they should identify themselves on their answering machine message. |
| 6:32
| OK, Janet is on the phone now. The phone doesn't ring in the bedroom so she had to run downstairs to answer it. She's ready with the ice though. Buzz should cover his ears at first but then slowly uncover them to hear how loud this thing is. Now Janet can have crushed ice for breakfast! |
| 6:33
| It doesn't sound that loud on the phone. Is Janet holding the phone across the counter? Can't she hold it up to the noisy part? Is Pat awake, can he hold the phone up to the noisy part? |
| 6:34
| Buzz is really hearing it now, it's pretty loud but it's even louder when you're in the house. Janet doesn't have any juice to put with the crushed ice. She usually doesn't serve it for breakfast though. |
| 6:35
| Janet likes the crushed ice with that Fuse stuff, although she thought it was called Fusè which made it seem more exotic. |
| 6:36
| Janet sent along a link for the Sonic ice maker but it needs to be hooked up to water and it can't get below 50º. It gets colder than that in their garage. Well now Janet can go to Sonic and get their crushed ice because Steve is throwing this ice maker out. |
| 6:37
| The phone is not doing the ice crusher any justice, it's much louder. And imagine that when Steve is watching TV. Janet says that Steve has a lot of sounds, like his loud chewing. Now you know where Pat gets it from. It's like he's being fed notes from Janet. |
| 6:38
| Steve's going to record that ice crusher with an actual microphone, or he can just bring it in. Not that it matters though, it'll never stop because everyone wants crushed ice. |
| 6:39
| So Kyle Orton was named as the Bears starting QB yesterday. Lovie must have been listening to the show yesterday when Steve talked to Tom Thayer. Tom said the Bears needed to just pick someone so they could start building a cohesive unit. |
| 6:40
| Mary heard someone on ESPN1000 point out that 4 years ago they were covering the Olympics and talking about whether or not Rex should start. It was actually Jay Mariotti. Why is Mary listening to that crap? Steve should smash her radio, she's supposed to be listening to Jack. |
| 6:41
| Caller Joe could hear how loud that ice crusher was, but only towards the end. Steve feels there was some audio manipulation so that he could continue to be portrayed as an ogre. |
| 6:42
| Steve is still waiting for listeners to call in with traffic info. He should probably call down to Adam's office and check in on those license plate frames. |
| 6:43
| Adam is still working on the pricing for the frames but he told Steve last week it would probably take about 2 weeks and that's what he's on target for. Adam does have some slogans to run by Steve though. |
| 6:44
| Actually the only slogan Adam has is "Roving Traffic Reporter". That's not very funny, it's rejected. That Adam's a real jive ass. |
| 6:45
| Joe heard Steve talking about that Nastia Liukin, he always wants to caller her Nadia. Last night at around 10:30 they were showing a U.S. women's pole vaulter, she won the silver medal after only 4 years of pole vaulting. She lost to the best pole vaulter in the world though. |
| 6:46
| After she won she went over to her coach and NBC must have had a mic on her because you got to hear the coach sort of chewing her out because she always loses it on the takeoff but at least she won a silver so what can he say? She had a deer-in-headlights look and even the NBC commentators couldn't believe what they were hearing. |
| 6:47
| There was also a Chris Collinsworth list of the top moments from the Olympics so far and one was Michael Phelps mom collapsing. We'll have Pete look for the tape on that stuff. Phelps' mom didn't really collapse though. She looks like Ginny Sac from The Sopranos though. |
| 6:48
| Pete has the pole vaulter tape. It does seem a little hardcore right after the event. On the other hand the guy is coaching her to win the gold, not the silver. |
| 6:49
| There are a lot of unattractive women in the track and field, Steve has noticed that. There's one really hot U.S. girl of Nordic descent. Is she from the U.S.? She fell during a race and it was hot because her shorts did some bad things on her. Steve thought she was from the U.S. but is running for Sweden. Steve felt so bad for her, he wanted to comfort her but he was here and she was in China. |
| 6:50
| She was cute as a button too. Steve doesn't know any of the details of the fall but he'd also seen her the night before in the semis. Steve felt bad for her but it was hot. The outfits they wear...one wrong move and those shorts go sideways. Does Brendan know who Steve is talking about? There's a caller who does. |
| 6:51
| Caller Mary knows the woman Steve is talking about, she's running for Sweden. Mary liked her hair with the braid on the side. |
| 6:58
| Live read: Townstone Financial |
| 6:59
| This is more of an informational live read so maybe Steve shouldn't use the music? |
| 7:00
| There ya go, both audio clips that caller was talking about. Is that fast or what?! |
| 7:01
| The Sox beat the Mariners last night and with a Twins lost they regained sole possession of first place. The Cubs are back at Wrigley to take on the Reds tonight. The Cubs are playing two cellar dweller teams in upcoming series. |
| 7:02
| The Bears named Kyle Orton their starting QB and they have their third preseason game on Thursday at Soldier Field. |
| 7:03
| News with Buzz |
| 7:04
| Tropical storm Fay finally reached Florida early today but never got to full hurricane strength. Wimpy! We had 90 mph winds at O'Hare a couple of weeks ago! |
| 7:05
| Barack Obama has made a choice for his running mate, he's currently on vacation in Hawaii. He will be informing supporters via email before the news media is alerted. Of course anyone in the media can just sign up for an email alert. |
| 7:06
| What if Obama picks a surfer for his VP? It could be a total wild card, someone he just met on a beach or something. How about that Laird Hamilton guy? That's a Vice President's name right there. |
| 7:07
| The man who took his right to bare arms all the way to the Supreme Court registered a revolver yesterday in Washington DC. |
| 7:08
| Gary Glitter's release from prison in Vietnam (HEY!) does not mean he's free to go wherever he wants. When he lands at Heathrow police will be waiting for him. He'll have to register as a sex offender and tell police where he lives. |
| 7:09
| Bail was denied for the suspect in the shooting of an off-duty police officer and a DCFS worker last week. Police believed the shooting stemmed from a botched robbery attempt. |
| 7:10
| Shawn Johnson finally won a gold medal in the last gymnastics event, edging out Nastia Liukin on the balance beam. Nastia's dad is not going to be happy. Steve prefers Shawn Johnson to Nastia, she's much cuter. She's only 16 though. Steve got an email admonishing him for being a dirty old man. |
| 7:11
| Steve's not the one who put them in leotards or covered them in chalk. He also didn't go to Des Moines and film them walking in a grocery store in cut-off jeans. Steve was very taken with that Swedish runner who fell though. Steve has a photo of her from a Swedish newspaper, she doesn't look that hot but you can see that her shorts got all sideways. |
| 7:13
| Steve fell once in third grade and he still hasn't recovered. That was just for a presentation of the Mexican Hat Dance for some assembled parents. |
| 7:13
| Song: Alright Now, Free |
| 7:17
| Steve used to play that when he was in Blackcreek. He played bass and sang. He's a rocker, born and bred. |
| 7:18
| As Buzz might know, Steve's not doing a blog at Dahl.com any more. He's trying to focus more on the show. When he was doing afternoons writing a blog in the morning helped him focus his thoughts. |
| 7:19
| Now, the last thing Steve wants to do after the show is write a blog. So he's started Twittering and there have only been a few complaints. There are always a few complainers. |
| 7:20
| Steve should have Twittered more yesterday. His first Twitter was telling people to get their friends to follow Steve. He realized that was pathetic so he stopped with the begging. |
| 7:21
| Then he Twittered about his lunch meeting with the Jiffy Lube people yesterday. Steve ordered the Halibut and then the waitress asked if anyone had any food allergies. Steve said he was allergic to Halibut, which got a laugh. |
| 7:22
| Steve has gone to several lunch meetings with one of the women from sales, Nikki. Every time they're out to lunch she orders a salad with shrimp and it always looks really awesome but she never eats them! She weighs about 50 pounds too, she just has a leaf of lettuce. |
| 7:23
| The last Twitter was "I am having a McDonald's chicken biscuit sandwich for breakfast" which is also Steve's Thought for the Day. He got a few responses which he'd like to read. The first emailer suggested the sandwich with cheese, the second guy just said it's a great sandwich but the third person, sending from his Blackberry so you know he has one, said Steve can do better than that. He really can't and if you want to hear something funny tune into the show! |
| 7:30
| Live read: Windy City Limo |
| 7:31
| If you ever watch a Sox game you can see George Jacobs, of Windy City Limo, sitting behind home plate with the M & M's jacket on. Sometimes that stupid Sox mascot Southpaw puts the jacket on and runs around in it. |
| 7:32
| Steve has another photo of that Swedish runner who's shorts went all sideways. Before she righted them she was putting the women's beach volleyball players to shame. |
| 7:33
| Steve wishes those volleyball players were just a little hotter. It's beach volleyball, you'd think they'd be hotter. Even the Brazilians aren't that hot. |
| 7:34
| Susanna Kallur was the one who fell and her and her twin sister both went to U of I. Why wasn't Steve alerted to that in the 4 years he had to go down there to visit Mike? Is there a track and field dorm or something? |
| 7:35
| Some of the female pole vaulters are also pretty hot, like supermodel hot. What kind of girl does that though? They have this giant pole, which is hot, then they start running with it and hit that hole in the ground. |
| 7:36
| Steve couldn't do that event, he'd probably break the pole. Buzz is pretty sure the poles are built to not break. In that case Steve would probably get vaulted 30 feet in the air. Steve still thinks it would break, there probably aren't a lot of 300 pound guys who have tried pole vaulting. |
| 7:37
| When Steve was in school and they had to run the mile the rest of the class finished and sat there watching him. He runs the 20 minute mile, that's as fast as his little legs can carry him. He can consistently give you that 20 minute mile though. |
| 7:38
| Time for a special report from Beijing Gay. How's Ben's connection today? It's like he's in the room, Buzz can hear every nuance. It's about 20 minutes to 9 pm Tuesday night in China. |
| 7:39
| Soon Ben will be heading out to hit up the Beijing night life. There aren't a lot of gay bars in China, it's not as open as a society. |
| 7:40
| If Ben could go to Tiananmen Square and protest maybe a tank would show up. Then he'd just climb up on it and give it what for. |
| 7:41
| Ben is really sick of hearing from Michael Phelps. Why is he still in China, why doesn't he come back here? And why is Brian Williams talking to Phelps about what's on his iPod? Aren't there wars going on? Didn't the President of Pakistan just resign? |
| 7:42
| In Olympics baseball the U.S. beat China 9-1. One Chinese player had to go to the hospital after being beaned in the head. It's not really a beaning though, it's more of a balling. |
| 7:43
| The U.S. team is all minor leaguers who aren't good enough to be in the majors yet. Ben would like to see retired major leaguers play in the Olympics. That Ryne Sandberg could probably still hit. |
| 7:44
| Meanwhile the U.S. men's basketball team is rolling through their competition. They're being called the Redeem Team after their poor showing in Greece in 2004. We're getting a better show this time which is good since we invented the game. |
| 7:45
| That's it for Ben's Gay Olympics Moments. Would Buzz like to hear the theme song again? He's just reading the Olympics events in alphabetical order. |
| 7:46
| Someone sent Ben a photo of Michael Phelps in his swim suit and you can see his weiner. Ben can see why you'd need to tuck that thing in, it could cause a lot of drag and probably lose him a race. It would keep him steady though, like a keel on a boat. |
| 7:54
| Steve actually disagrees with Ben Gay, he didn't mind the Brian Williams interview with Michael Phelps. What else are they going to cover? |
| 7:55
| Steve has some tickets to give away for Cheech & Chong in concert in Chicago. Far out man! |
| 7:56
| Steve used to do a good Cheech & Chong impersonation, how does it sound to Buzz? It can be utilized more in this ticket giveaway. |
| 7:57
| So we can use that for the giveaways if Buzz wants to. Steve realizes that a lot of his skills are being replaced by a machine, he's like John Henry. |
| 7:58
| The Sox beat the Mariners in convincing fashion last night. With a Twins loss they're not back in first by themselves. They play the Mariners again tonight. |
| 7:59
| The Cubs were off last night but they're playing the Reds at Wrigley tonight, Rich Harden faces Johnny Cueto. The Bears named Kyle Orton their starting QB, hopefully that all works out and he starts for many games to come. |
| 8:00
| Song: China Grove, The Doobie Brothers |
| 8:03
| In a perfect world Steve would have done the Eight O'Clock Taco Bell then played the song. That way Buzz would have had plenty of time to eat his Fajita Steak Melt prior to doing the news. |
| 8:04
| Steve fully understands if Buzz throws the Fajita Steak Melt at him in anger. We have more so we can get him another one. |
| 8:05
| News with Buzz |
| 8:06
| Tropical storm Fay is battering Southwest Florida with heavy rains and wind but it's not a hurricane. Can we stop hearing about it then? Unless you live there, who cares? |
| 8:07
| 11 hikers remain missing following flash floods in the Grand Canyon over the weekend. Did Buzz see the video of that dam breaking? It looks like something Steve did in his backyard as a kid. |
| 8:08
| Supporters of Barack Obama could get an email as early as tomorrow telling them who the candidate has chosen as his running mate. But he's no vacation now right? He takes a lot of vacations in Hawaii, Steve has noticed that. He was raised in Hawaii, but not at the Four Seasons. Maybe Obama will choose the room service waiter as his running mate. There's something about the way he brings those macadamia pancakes! |
| 8:09
| We can never go back to Hawaii and do a show unless they want to go live at midnight. Obama was in Hawaii last week, that's where he made his decision. |
| 8:10
| Illinois Senate President Emil Jones is anointing one of his children as his successor. We should have seen this coming yesterday. He began the process of handing off his Senate seat to Emil Jones III by filing paperwork to get his son on the November ballot. Ultimately it's up to the Democratic Committee to choose. What do you think they'll do? |
| 8:11
| Jones doesn't even have to take his name off the ballot, they can just put "III" after his name. Jones said he's retiring to spend more time with his family and then he's sending his kid off to Springfield. Plus he's 90, what family? |
| 8:12
| Steve gets helping your kids but at least they can try to be more on the up-and-up. They always wait until the last minute to pull something like this so no one can do anything about it. |
| 8:13
| Shawn Johnson finally got her Olympics gold medal in the balance beam event. Did Buzz write this story, it's so poetic? On the uneven bars it came down to a tiebreaker between Nastia Liukin and He Kexin of China. Kexin won the tiebreaker and the gold medal. |
| 8:14
| Finally from Tokyo, Apple's iPod Nano is being blamed for starting three players. 90 music players overheated and started fires but no one was injured. |
| 8:15
| On the phone is Patrick Bertoletti, he's in London still recovering from the dumpling eating competition. He ate about 7 kilos of dumplings. So he's going metric now? That's about 15 1/2 pounds and he did win. |
| 8:16
| Patrick was supposed to call yesterday but he had some problems with his hotel and his flight so he was stranded without a phone. It's very had to get to a phone these days. That's fine keeping Steve waiting all day though. |
| 8:17
| Patrick is in London to enjoy their food, not overeat. He's had several English breakfasts already. First he had a bad breakfast at his hotel and then went looking for a traditional English breakfast. The first one wasn't that good but someone sent him to a better restaurant that had the blood sausage and all that stuff. |
| 8:18
| Tonight Patrick is going to Anthony Bourdain's favorite restaurant. Bourdain is dead to Steve. He's been in town filming his TV show with Mancow! Steve's had Tony on the show for at least 10 years! |
| 8:19
| Patrick thinks that maybe Bourdain was a Mancow fan and wanted to hang out with Turd. Do we really need to go into the insider Mancow stuff? Patrick's job is to eat and not puke, that's it. |
| 8:20
| Patrick was having a hard time not puking during that dumpling competition because the food was so rich. |
| 8:21
| And what about the women, how's that going? Patrick didn't know the word for jailbait but a lot of the girls seemed very young. That doesn't matter, they don't have any sex laws over there. |
| 8:22
| Patrick might need a wing man to talk to these women because he's usually ready to puke when he's talking to a girl. |
| 8:23
| Patrick better not be going to any of the restaurants in London that Steve can't get into next week. He can't remember the names of them though. |
| 8:24
| Steve calls up to the office. Stephanie hasn't been able to get Steve into Gordon Ramsay's restaurants, they're booked very far in advance. Can Chef Hans get Steve in? |
| 8:25
| Steve wants to know why the hotel concierge can't get him into either of these restaurants with three weeks notice! What kind of concierge can't do that! |
| 8:26
| Steve's going to go down to that restaurant himself and get a table, that's what he did in L.A. at Cut. He made friends with the host, along with Ben Franklin. |
| 8:27
| Stephanie needs to put a war room together with a big board full of stuff Steve can't do. Steve only cares about what he can't do. Right now Stephanie is not putting the Gordon Ramsay restaurants on the can't do list. |
| 8:35
| Steve needs to put his thinking cap on and figure out how to get into one of Gordon Ramsay's restaurants. They're both broadcasters, there has to be a way. Steve should be focusing on enjoying what he can do but instead he's focusing on what he can't do. It might be a personality flaw. |
| 8:36
| Alright it's Peanut Butter Jelly Time. Pat Boyle has no doubt Steve will get the reservations he wants for next week. How does Steve not know Gordon Ramsay? He just renovated a restaurant right near Steve |
| 8:37
| That restaurant is still empty but to Gordon's credit he'll go back there in 6 months to follow-up on the renovations. |
| 8:38
| Chef Hans might know Gordon Ramsay but a lot of stuff with him gets lost in the translation. Steve will probably end up as a dishwasher in his restaurant. |
| 8:39
| Steve was watching the Sox game on Comcast last night but also switching to the Olympics. Can't they give him at least some hot Brazilian beach volleyball players? |
| 8:40
| At the end of the game Kerry Sayers was in the dugout interviewing Jermaine Dye, he had a pretty good game. If you're not a Sox fan or don't watch the post-game, you wouldn't know that Toby Hall puts a shaving cream pie in the face of every interviewee. |
| 8:41
| The shaving cream pie is cute when it's a guy who just came up from the rookies or a new call up who had a great game or even a Nick Swisher hitting his first home run as a White Sock. But Jermaine Dye was the World Series MVP, he doesn't need a shaving cream pie. |
| 8:42
| Last night Jermaine Dye did something to Toby Hall and Steve's pretty sure it injured the back-up catcher. Toby Hall has had some shoulder problems that have kept him out of games in the past. |
| 8:43
| Everyone says they like the shaving cream pies and John Danks is really into it, but he's John Danks. He's been in the majors for two years. The whole thing is bush though. Pat wouldn't be surprised if Kenny Williams puts out an edict ending the whole thing. |
| 8:44
| Steve wouldn't be surprised if it's over today. If they're going to pie someone can't they at least use whip cream? Or maybe a real pie in the face of Alexei Ramirez, he could use the calories. |
| 8:45
| There's some serious talk now about Alexei Ramirez being named rookie of the year. And there's also some serious talk about Carlos Quentin for MVP. these are two guys that we'd never even heard of a year ago. |
| 8:46
| Imagine what Alexei Ramirez is thinking. Last year he was playing in Cuba, now he's playing in Chicago making what is probably over $1 million to him. |
| 8:47
| What is that sound that Steve always hears when a home run is hit on a game on Comcast? It's just the sound that drops down along with a graphic that it's a 3-run home run or whatever. Can Pat talk to Jim Angio about getting rid of that thing? |
| 8:48
| Comcast finally got rid of that dog that walks across the screen and barks. It's louder than the game! |
| 8:49
| The Cubs will win tonight of course. Steve has them penciled in for sweeps of the Reds and Nationals. That team is ridiculous, why are they even playing the games any more? |
| 8:50
| Alright, going back to this Jermaine Dye audio, he's in the dugout with Kerry Sayers when Toby Hall tries to pie him in the face. You have to feel bad for JD, he's got some time with Kerry Sayers in the dugout and Toby Hall is trying to break it up. |
| 8:51
| You can definitely hear Toby yell out when he gets denied. The Comcast camera guy called in and said that Toby definitely hurt himself. Kenny Williams will probably say something about the pies today and put a stop to it. |
| 8:52
| The other day he did it to Paul Konerko but he was cool with it, probably because he's been in a bit of a slump. It's almost an insult to Jermaine Dye though. |
| 8:53
| The Brewers won last night so they're not 5 games behind the Cubs. Steve's no baseball genius but he doesn't think the Brewers are ever going to catch the Cubs. |
| 8:54
| The Brewers do hold the wild card lead so if something were to happen the Cubs would probably still make it in. Steve still doesn't think that'll happen, the Cubs are one of the best baseball teams he's ever seen. |
| 8:55
| The Cubs just have that thing that good teams have. Both teams have that this year which will help us get through the pain of a bad Bears season. Steve needs to take a break and then he wants to talk about the Bears. |
| 9:03
| Live read: Triton College |
| 9:04
| There was a quality Tony Conigliero mention from the Hawkaroo last night. Steve and Pat have had a lot of fun with Hawk and DJ's bat talk all season long but now all the broken bats are getting national coverage. |
| 9:05
| Steve will say this. If you have the MLB cable package you'll see that people in Chicago are blessed with two really good TV teams. Steve likes Hawk and DJ he just wishes someone would come in the booth with some more stats. DJ did go off on a nice tangent about Japanese baseball. |
| 9:06
| Pat doesn't think there's anyone better in this town at calling a huge moment in a game. "You can put it on the board, yes!" and "This game is OVAH" are way better than what DJ is doing. |
| 9:07
| So the Bears named Kyle Orton as their starting QB, that was sort of expected. Steve just wanted the Bears to pick someone. As Tom Thayer pointed out, they just need to pick someone and start building a unit. |
| 9:08
| Steve thinks Kyle is talented but he's not sure if anyone can overcome Ron Turner's offense play calling. |
| 9:09
| It might be about time for Kyle to shave his mustache and sideburns. He's not going to get any endorsement deals looking like that. At least he shaved that neck beard he had going. |
| 9:10
| Kyle still has something weird going though, it's sideburns connected to a mustache and a goatee. Buzz thought that the mustache sort of had a Tom Selleck look to it under the helmet. |
| 9:11
| Steve is not going to the Sox game until tomorrow. At the beginning of the season it's hard to tell which games are going to be the good ones. Plus Steve's selling some of these tickets to his friends so he wants to give them a few good games. |
| 9:12
| Of course David from The Little Guys only wants to go to good games like the Cubs. Everyone wants to go to the Cubs games! |
| 9:13
| Steve does have the press pass to get into the games if he wants. He still doesn't have that Bears press pass though, has Pat made any calls about that? |
| 9:14
| Steve would actually take stuff he saw at a game and bring it to the show with him. No one wants to talk to the Bears about it though because they don't want to mess up their own thing. |
| 9:15
| Song: Iris, Goo Goo Dolls |
| 9:19
| Alright Steve's going to take a break and then after that some entertainment news with Brendan. What do we call his report? Brendan suggests E News. Isn't that what E! calls their news? How about TMZ? Perez Hilton? |
| 9:26
| Live read: NBC |
| 9:27
| Steve and Brendan are going out to L.A. for the NBC fall season launch party. Two listeners can also win a trip out there. Brendan's going to do all the celebrity interviews. Brendan's looking forward to talking to the maid from My Name is Earl. The one who can't act her way out of a paper bag? |
| 9:28
| Someone emailed Steve during the break to suggest that we call this entertainment segment B News. All of the celebrities he mentions are B-listers. |
| 9:29
| Cable's biggest show, The Hills, debuted it's 4th season last night. Is that really the biggest show on cable? Brendan says it's definitely MTV's biggest show. It was Audrina's birthday last night, she has a rockstar body. |
| 9:30
| Rockstar body, is that what Brendan wants to go with? Is he confusing it with Party Like a Rockstar? Maybe that's what the kids are saying. Brendan's not a kid but he plays one on the radio. In reality he's almost as old as Steve and Buzz. |
| 9:31
| When Steve hears rockstar he thinks of a dude but maybe that's what the kids are saying. |
| 9:32
| Brendan is a little heavy on The Hills today. How old is he? Quick, what year were you born in?! |
| 9:33
| The Hills is reality but at this point the people on the show know it's more of a docudrama so they're acting right? They know what they're going to say and everything right? |
| 9:34
| As it turns out, the maid from My Name is Earl, Nadine Velazquez, is from Chicago. She was born November 20th, 1978. Steve will handle this one since they have the same birthday. |
| 9:35
| Maybe it just seems like she's a bad actress because she's doing a really fake Mexican accent. She's |
| 9:36
| Al Pacino was coming out of an L.A. restaurant yesterday and we caught him wearing blue nail polish? We? Our cameras? |
| 9:37
| Before Brendan finishes up, Steve would like to admit to watch a show that he's ashamed he enjoys. It's TMZ, he can't stop watching it. There's something about the way they have the show set up. |
| 9:38
| All of these kids are in this office pitching stories to Harvey Levin and there's a guy who looks like Fabio writing them all on a dry erase board. But the kids pitching the stories is the actual show. Someone will say they have a video of Heidi Klum shopping and wondering where she got the money and then they show the video and they've just done the story. |
| 9:39
| On these other entertainment shows it's hard for them to just go right to these bad celebrity stories, they can't just admit that they're whores. The conceit of TMZ is genius though. |
| 9:40
| They're pitching ideas for a show that's never going to happen because that's the show. It's just a bunch of smarmy, smart-ass kids sitting around pitching these stories. |
| 9:41
| Access Hollywood's Billy Bush was interviewing Michael Phelps' mom yesterday when he got a text message from Lindsay Lohan. It said she thought Phelps was "f'ing great" and wanted to meet him. Bush showed the text to Phelps' mom. |
| 9:42
| What about Lindsay's girlfriend? Is she getting ready to dump her? Steve's all for two girls like that but that other girl is a dealbreaker. It's like having Johnny Depp in the room with you. |
| 9:48
| Alright it's time for the web poll. Today's question will also feature a song. Yesterday's web poll was "Do you have a land line?" 78% of the people said yes. |
| 9:49
| Today's question is "Do you take Lake Shore Drive?" Steve takes it, it's the best road. Starting yesterday, a resurfacing project on Lake Shore Drive will shut down 4 of the 8 lanes for most of the day until the end of the year. |
| 9:50
| It's happening between Irving Park and Foster which is right in Buzz's wheelhouse. It's not a big deal for him, that's not much of a distance for him to go plus in the morning it's not that big of a deal. |
| 9:51
| The northbound lanes of Lake Shore Drive will be open when there is a Cubs game. That thing gets back up all the way to Soldier Field. |
| 9:52
| Song: Lake Shore Drive, Aliotta Haynes Jeremiah |
| 9:56
| Steve used to hang out with those guys, every once in a while he runs into one of them but they're never together. |
| 9:57
| Buzz mentioned he had one story he wanted to do. The Ruskies, or vodka eaters as Steve likes to call them, aren't leaving Georgia. Steve saw one of their tanks accidentally stuck in reverse, running into police cars. |
| 9:58
| NATO is calling on Russia to honor all 6 points of the cease fire that everyone signed. Barack Obama was echoing those same sentiments on TV this morning. |
| 9:59
| Today is the day that Milwaukee finally unveils the Fonzie statue. Many Happy Days cast membersu will be in attendance including Scott Baio and Donny Most. |
| 10:00
| Just to remind Buzz, this is a TV Land stunt. They also put a Bob Newhart statue in Chicago. Buzz said last week that Happy Days was one of his favorite shows, hopefully he was stoned while watching it. |
| 10:01
| When Happy Days first premiered ABC would not let Henry Winkler wear a leather jacket. They thought it was too reminiscent of a motorcycle gang. Now that jacket is in the Smithsonian so we've made some progress in our puritanical society. |
