Steve honors the blessed lives of man’s best friends. Mike, Kathryn and the kids arrived safely. Dag bought a Subaru Crosstrek. Sam Elliott dishes out a mustache salute. Steve piles super chunky peanut butter on a spoon and washes it down with lemonade.

Lawrence Welk offers comfort to Steve and Dag. The recycling truck arrived early complete with backup beeps. Steve and Janet finished 1883. Brendan and Hank acquired tasty vittles, via Facebook Marketplace. Dag kissed his “FoFo” goodbye at the junkyard.

Joe Walsh joins us from the road on Eagles’ Hotel California tour, which hit United Center over the weekend. Joe orders his eggs over easy. Steve and Janet are welcoming Mike’s family this week. Tom Thayer catches us up on the NFL free agency whirlwind.

Steve’s waistband gets sweaty each day during the show. Pat is in Arizona for Spring Training. The Professor gave him a cool gift. Emails lead to a Churchill’s War Room recommendation. Steve viewed The Golden Girls recently and found it to be enjoyable.

Janet is prepping a corned beef for St. Patrick’s Day. She’s partially following a new recipe from The Tipsy Housewife. Steve’s waiter refused to bring him a mocktail. They had a lovely time otherwise as they dined with some friends at a Naples hotspot.

Steve watched the Zelenskyy video speech delivered to Congress this morning. A Florida Highway Patrol trooper saved 10K runners from a drunk driver. Steve and Janet’s niece bikepacked from Savannah to the Keys. The origin of “Cowabunga” surprises Steve.

Steve watched an oldies concert from 2011 with a bunch of familiar bands. It is a Talk to Me Tuesday and Hal from Orlando has a literary request. Be careful ordering a Long John out West. Dag is in the midst of a weeklong Poi Dog Pondering run at SPACE.

Steve corrects an erroneous Ferris Bueller fact. Dag joined Frank from Poi Dog Pondering at a beef stroganoff dining experience. Dag cut his finger in the kitchen. Tom Thayer reacts to the Bears moving on from Khalil Mack, Eddie Goldman and Tarik Cohen.

Today is Les Grobstein Day in Chicago, in remembrance of the sports radio icon. Steve hit up a poorly attended cocktail party. Repticon is coming to a town near Steve! Might he consider a python in need of rehoming? Or embarking on a guided iguana hunt?

Dag’s FoFo is no more. The mechanic assured him his car was beyond repair. Callers help Steve zero in on suburban music venue Haymakers’ true location. The carpet guy arrives to measure the stairs. Janet offers advice for Brendan, who publishes a novel.

Steve was fueling up his car when the automatic pump shutoff malfunctioned. Gasoline sprayed all over the ground. Dag’s trusty FoFo is experiencing transmission issues. A landfill worker was killed when a bulldozer ran over the porta-potty he was using.

Dag wraps up his weeklong-plus work on Mark Roberts’ audiobook, The Lonely Banjo. It’s musicians vs. residents at Celebration Park in East Naples, where locals are complaining about noise levels. Brendan raves about Snappy’s Shrimp on Irving Park Road.

Steve attended the local boat show. Tom Thayer watched the NFL combine, but it is difficult to predict who might be available to the Bears in round two. Tom details how play-calling terminology has evolved over the years, not necessarily for the better.

The hot tub’s chlorine level was way too high. Janet is jetting back to Illinois after the show. A pilot in was suspected of being drunk. Steve brought home shrimp and some coconut turtles. Steve once visited Jonathon Brandmeier at a Key West broadcast.

Steve learns about an oligarch’s $600 million yacht. The condo board is deciding on a color of paint for the units. Jon Bon Jovi celebrated his 60th birthday. Dag is broadcasting from The Emily Hotel in Fulton Market as he works on an audiobook project.

Steve and Janet mended the fences in time to watch the State of the Union together. Steve gargled with salt water. Janet ordered a bumblebee brooch from Russia before the attack on Ukraine. It sits unopened. Steve bought a golf glove for the wrong hand.

Steve and Janet ventured to the Atlantic coast of Florida to spend a full day surrounded by the Joliat family. They went out for dinner at Nauti Dawg Marina Cafe. Arby’s discontinued Janet’s beloved potato cakes. Rosie lapped out of Steve’s water glass.

Dag’s show at Hey Nonny was a success! Plenty of subscribers came out. Steve and Janet went to the beach and sat next to some loud Bostonians. Tom Thayer wakes up his dogs one by one every morning. Tom recalls a childhood prank involving a garter snake.

A Houston gastropub unleashes a send up of Taco Bell they’ve labeled Trashy Bell. Tennis players and pickleballers duel over Bonita Beach court space. Steve leaves his unfinished Coke for Janet. Evidently, she prefers her soft drinks flat and lifeless.

Dag’s daughter has finally decided to obtain her driver’s license, with a DMV test the final hurdle to traverse. Rosie wants all her food to be a treat. Steve doesn’t have faith in Janet’s vodka tasting acumen. Steve and Janet took a hot tub after dusk.

Joe storyboards a fictional film loosely based on the life of Steve Dahl. A Finnish Olympian was crotchety after suffering a frozen appendage during a downhill competition. Steve ran into Jim Oberweis on his morning walk, but couldn’t get his attention.

2-2-22 fell on a Twosday! Speaking of falls, Steve fell out of bed. Rosie failed to react. Janet observed Lamborghini owners showing off for one another. There was a bomb threat at Publix. Rosie insists both balcony doors remain open, so she can circle.

Tom Thayer watched the state wrestling tournament featuring Joliet Catholic athletes. Steve wasn’t impressed with attention to 1970’s California detail in the film Licorice Pizza. He kept pausing it to explain inaccuracies to Janet, much to her chagrin.

Steve doesn’t mean to make empty weekend promises, they just turn out that way. It is day two of ventilation installation at Steve’s neighbors. Nonny is a word from the Elizabethan era. We dig into the notorious 1903 electrocution of Topsy the Elephant.