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		Wednesday, January 17, 2007



2:02	Song: Name, Goo Goo Dolls
2:07	Is that the song from Philadelphia where everyone is dancing and dressed like sailors?
2:08	Steve just remembered a Howard Stern TV show when the Goo Goo Dolls were on and played that song and everyone in the studio was dressed like sailors.
2:09	Pete thinks that Steve might be thinking of the song Iris, also by the Goo Goo Dolls, in the movie City of Angels.
2:10	Pete is acting like he doesn't know every single gay movie that has come out in the last decade. He watches Gays Anatomy!
2:11	One of the characters on Gays Anatomy recently came out of the closet. The actor plays George, which is Mike Dahl's roommates favorite character. Steve has been lucky enough to avoid that show in the last few weeks.
2:12	Last Thursday Janet had a book club meeting and ordered some specialty pizzas from Lou Malnati's. Janet and the rest of her family is the worst pizza ordering family ever.
2:13	Last year in Florida on the last night everyone was there they got together in Janet's dad's condo, which couldn't have been lovelier. They ordered a large pizza with some meat on it and a medium pizza with all vegetables.
2:14	Janet asked Steve what she should get on the pizza last Thursday but she didn't listen and instead got one with sausage and spinach and another that was vegetarian. By the time Steve got home, which wasn't too late, all that was left was two slices of vegetarian.
2:15	The guy on Gays Anatomy came out of the closet after he was called a gay slur by another cast member. Steve doesn't know which cast member it was though.
2:16	According to Pete it was Isaiah Washington who has been in other fights on the set. He also hurt his hand at some point last year, maybe on the night that they were all watching Gays Anatomy at Steve's house and Tina told him he was drinking sewer water.
2:17	Today Tina was trying to defend Jay Mariotti. She's interning at the Sun-TImes now and even though Neil Steinberg says that Jay doesn't talk to anyone, he actually does.
2:18	Yesterday, Tina was yelling at Steve for taking vitamin supplements. Steve's are an energy pack, which Matt Dahl took the other day on accident.
2:19	Steve has done a lot worse to his body than take these supplements. He can get them at GNC too, it's not like he's buying them in the projects.
2:20	Steve used to take Metabolift but when he went to GNC over the summer to replenish his stock the guy working there recommended Spike. It's the same as Metabolift but keeps you clear headed. Spike is also under lock-and-key so you know you're getting the good stuff.
2:21	If Buzz ever needs a lift, Steve's got him covered. He would hate for Tina to see Buzz taking them thought because he's her news mentor.
2:22	Buzz doesn't really take any of this stuff, but maybe he should start.
2:23	Mark Czerniec is pointing out that just yesterday Steve was mocking Airborne and just to drive him nuts he put a trademark symbol at the end.
2:24	Steve doesn't see the connection because Airborne is just vitamin C and Zinc. Steve does take vitamins, but he doesn't see the point of taking Airborne.
2:25	Steve was making fun of homeopathic medicine yesterday. He's just using this Spike stuff to get off.
2:26	Mark Czerniec is on the phone. Yesterday Steve was deriding all forms of made-up medicine and said that he only wants to take doctor prescribed meds.
2:27	Steve was just talking about people who rub lavender on their heads to stop a headache.
2:28	Steve doesn't consider Spike to be homeopathic since they lock it up in a cabinet.
2:29	Steve likes taking pills which is why he likes this Spike stuff. Mark takes mineral supplements but he's one of those people.
2:30	Mark's wife Amy is a tea fan. Last night he got into some sort of organic tea she's been drinking.
2:31	Mark's favorite tea was Morning Thunder but they don't make it any more. It had 4 times the caffeine of normal coffee. When Steve was working mornings he tried that stuff but it didn't work for him.
2:32	Mark was watching something on one of the local stations about how supplements are bad for you. By local he means Chicago because Racine doesn't have any stations.
2:33	It could have been CBS but Steve doesn't believe anything they say. Maybe Tina saw that and became concerned.
2:34	On an upcoming Primetime Live they might be dealing with Pete's affliction, which is his desire to hoard things.
2:35	Steve also saw something on there about an 1800 pound guy who can't get out of bed so he's doing sit ups until he can. Steve thinks the guy should just give up because there's nothing he can do to attract chicks.
2:36	Even if the guy loses 800 pounds, he still weights 1000 pounds. He should just lay in bed eating until he blows up.
2:37	This is all part of Primetime Live's Medical Mysteries show tonight at 9:00.
2:38	A guy who weighs that much probably gets some good washings though.
2:42	So in addition to this obese guy they'll also be featuring a piece on Pete's condition, whatever it is.
2:43	Obesity is really just another form of hoarding. In that case you're hoarding stuff in your body.
2:44	Pete hoards broken VCRs, hoping to cannibalize them for parts.
2:53	The movie Philadelphia does feature guys dressed as sailors dancing, but the Goo Goo Dolls do not appear in the movie. Buzz was in Philadelphia as one of the dancing sailors.
2:54	Buzz was actually in the opening scene as Crutches, because he is completely bandaged up on crutches, in an elevator with Denzel Washington and Tom Hanks.
2:55	Steve has never seen Philadelphia and Buzz didn't care for it. Maybe that's why he was bandaged up in the movie.
2:56	A man walking down the street at bar closing time with a $190 cake in his hands claims that Lakers center Kwame Brown swiped his treat.
2:57	That cake is $310 cheaper than the one Steve had to pay for for Buzz's 60th birthday party.
2:58	Prosecutors will not be filing charges against Brown. The man, Alexander Martinez, left his birthday party at the Shore Restaurant and Lounge at 1:45 AM with the intact 2-by-2 foot cake.
2:59	That's really not a big cake for the money, but it's only the guy's 30th birthday. By the time he gets to 60 it'll be bigger and much more expensive.
3:00	As far as Steve's concerned, you shouldn't spend more than $50 on a birthday cake and that's only if it's one of those special cakes that looks like a naked lady.
3:08	If Steve ever accidentally watches Philadelphia, he'll be sure to look for Buzz. Although if he's right at the beginning Steve doesn't have to watch the rest of it.
3:09	Buzz, Denzel Washington and Tom Hanks spent the good part of an afternoon in the elevator so eventually they got to talking. Was Buzz hard to understand because he was all bandaged up?
3:10	Buzz had a chance to work with Denzel again in The Manchurian Candidate. They had a chance to talk again and Buzz mentioned he was in Philadelphia, but had to remind him which part he played.
3:11	In The Manchurian Candidate Buzz was the guy on the freeze-framed security footage. He has been in all of Jonathan Demme's movies and they've all been blockbusters, except Truth About Charlie. Although in that one Buzz's harmonica playing was the only part he had.
3:12	Something Wild wasn't a blockbuster, but it's on cable all the time so Steve considers that a success. He finds it quite enjoyable. Melanie Griffith was very cute and still is except she had her lips done.
3:13	There's a girl on that Las Vegas show, Nikki Cox who also had her lips done and she looks like a platypus. She used to date Bobcat Goldthwait and now she's married to Jay Mohr. Is that a step up or a step down?
3:14	Steve is looking at Buzz's IMDb profile. He did not write the mini-bio on there but for the most part it's all true. He was not editor of the University of Miami newspaper. Buzz was the editor of a crazy, conservative paper.
3:15	Steve's bio on IMDb is incorrect, he's not in the Broadcasting Hall of Fame. Maybe that's what Tina can do today, correct his bio.
3:16	Buzz went on to be the entertainment editor of the Coral Gables Times, which Steve did not know. He also didn't know that Buzz was the editor of The Daily Planet.
3:17	The Daily Planet still operates down in Florida if Buzz is interested in stepping back into his role.
3:18	Buzz is no longer playing for the All Bubba Blues Band so he might want to get this updated.
3:20	Buzz played Ruthless Sniper in Married to the Mob. In that scene Buzz told Jonathan Demme that the scene was all wrong and didn't make sense if he was supposed to be an assassin.
3:21	Did Buzz move the camera around and start demanding a tracking shot?
3:22	It also says that Buzz was the voice in an animated TV show called Mouse, but he doesn't remember doing that one.
3:23	Buzz's final credit was for Outing Riley, but his part got cut. Not that it matters since that movie is probably never coming out. Steve was also in Outing Riley, and had a fairly large part as an estate lawyer.
3:24	The other movie Steve is in, Someone to Eat Cheese With, is coming out sometime this year.
3:25	Pat's fiance, Rachel, teaches at a school in Arizona. It's sort of in a bad neighborhood so it's championed by all the rich people in the area, including filmmaker Lawrence Kasdan.
3:26	Somehow Pat and Rachel ended up at his house for a party and his kids were there talking about independent movies. One of them mentioned he had seen Someone to Eat Cheese With.
3:27	Live read: The Little Guys
3:33	You would think that when Jeff is talking about Someone to Eat Cheese With he would mention Steve's name over some guy named Dave Pasquesi
3:34	Someone to Eat Cheese With is supposed to be at Sundance but Steve isn't sure. His travel agent goes there every year and Steve told her he was in it, but she didn't seem interested in seeing it. 3:33
3:35	Song: Streets of Philadelphia, Bruce Springsteen
3:40	Well there's an uplifting song right there. It's a good thing we don't use razor blades around here any more or else Steve would have slit his wrists.
3:41	You gotta think that a movie about a guy dying of AIDS isn't going to have a happy ending.
3:42	Caller Dave is familiar with Dave Pasquesi. He's from Chicago and he's pretty funny but the last thing he remembers him in is Father of the Bride.
3:43	Oddly enough, Dave Pasquesi is in Tapioca, the movie Buzz did the voiceover work for on the trailer. That's not a good sign.
3:44	Buzz knows that there's one big name in Tapioca, some Second City guy from Chicago.
3:45	Is Buzz thinking of Tim Kazurinsky? Hey Buzz, the 80s called!
3:46	Mary got an email from Ron of Bob and Ron. They will not be coming in today because Bob threw out his back and pinched a nerve.
3:47	Bob was probably walking some dogs, the leashes got crossed and then the dogs took off.
3:48	Ron was looking to reschedule the segment for tomorrow or Friday depending on how Bob feels. That's not gonna happen. If Bob and Ron don't come in the calendar moves forward a week and Steve considers himself lucky for having dodged that bullet.
3:49	It's not that Steve doesn't like Bob and Ron it's just that their segment is a lot of work.
3:50	This is probably something that Bob and Ron do every week to score Vicodin, but there were too many people in line at Stroger Hospital.
3:51	Bob's dad took him to the hospital and according to Ron he sounded terrible. Steve didn't know that Bob had a dad who he was still in contact. If Bob was Steve's son, he'd be dead to him.
3:52	Steve has spent the better part of the last 5 years defending Bob and Ron from listeners. They get the most hate mail about the show, other than Steve.
3:53	Bob and Ron are probably mad because they didn't get one of the cheeseburgers that were sent over from Rockit Bar. They were outraged when they were told that the burgers were for Buzz.
3:54	Steve has never been to Rockit, nor has he been to Billy Dec's other bar Underground. No one knows where Underground is because the location is secret. They also serve Pop-Tarts. Steve wishes he had the audacity to do something like that.
3:55	Caller Sam has a theory about Bob and Ron. When you take one of those long hits from the bottom of the bowl, sometimes you have convulsive full-body coughs. Maybe that's how he threw out his back.
3:56	It sounds like Sam is from the South. Speaking of that, has anyone see the video of the people driving around in Texas in the snow? It's fantastic.
3:57	Caller Rick wanted to let Steve know that Tim Kazurinsky lives in Evanston and last summer he made some big deal about saving trees that were being sprayed with chemicals.
3:58	Tim Kazurinsky isn't an environmentalist he's just a tree hugger. If he's an environmentalist then so is Steve.
4:05	Steve's favorite flavor of Pop Tart is brown sugar.
4:06	Sometime in the last 20 minutes Steve said the exact title of a song and he wanted to play it since it ties in, but now he can't remember the title.
4:07	Steve had to get on Jim kid to update the log because it was at 2:44 when he checked it to see if something could jog his memory.
4:08	Steve doesn't like to jog so he could go back and listen to the tape but he hates hearing himself. Sometimes if he hears himself it takes him weeks to recover from it.
4:09	Steve doesn't like hearing himself because he thinks he sounds bad. When he was working in weekends in Bakersfield he would go back to the hotel at night and sit in a darkened room thinking about how bad he was at it.
4:10	That feeling would last until the next day when he did the Sunday show and then after that he would drive back to L.A. feeling bad and then dwell on how much he sucked for the entire week. Then he'd go back to Bakersfield for a fresh set of suckiness.
4:11	Brendan brought in Brown Sugar because Steve said that was his favorite flavor of Pop Tart. He could play that or Cinnamon Girl, or Buzz could do the headlines.
4:12	Caller Steve wanted to let Steve know that he doesn't suck.
4:13	Song: Cinnamon Girl, Neil Young
4:16	Headlines with Buzz
4:17	President Bush met with Republican members of Congress in hopes of getting support for more troops in Iraq.
4:18	Steve needs to stop Buzz because he got so far behind in the breaks that he thought he was ahead. The last break he took was the 3:15 which he thought was the 4:15. There's nothing scarier than being done with all your breaks at 6:20.
4:23	Back to Buzz in the news room.
4:24	How many Iraqis are left after this war? There has to be only 90 or so left.
4:25	Stephen Hawking was compelled to talk about the fate of the planet after scientists moved the Doomsday Clock ahead 2 minutes. That thing is so stupid. At least they could go digital with it.
4:26	Steve read something on Wikipedia about how all the orange crops in California had moved to Florida. That seems wrong based on all the stuff he's hearing about crop damage from the cold weather in California.
4:27	People's Super Bowl parties could be effected because the guacamole crop was also damaged in California. Although since the game is in Miami, maybe you could just get some coke for your party.
4:28	That kidnapping victim from Missouri is going to be on Oprah tomorrow morning. He was missing for 4 years, although he could have come home several times.
4:29	Hopefully Oprah asks the kid's parents why they let him get an earring when he was 10. A kid that young shouldn't have an earring unless it's a girl.
4:30	Aimee wanted to get Piper's ear pierced but Buzz put the kibosh on it. If she doesn't get it done now then she'll just end up doing it at some girl's house during a sleepover.
4:31	Connie of Connie's Pizza has passed away at the age of 91. Steve had no idea she was that old. He always pictured her being much younger, like a sexy divorcee.
4:39	Steve didn't look at the webcast of the table read for The Class but they seem to archive all of them.
4:40	Steve watched it last week but all the writers on the show have Apple's, which for some reason can't play the video. Steve compressed the video and then sent it to Pat so they could all watch it.
4:41	For some reason CBS is using a Windows-based video player which means if you have an Apple you can't watch it. That seems like a mistake since the Mac crowd seems like a group you want to include in any viral marketing plans.
4:42	Steve isn't surprised because CBS is the same company that screws up the webstream for the show everyday. Of course the people here who maintain the stream don't help either. The other day the stream was just all commercials and no show.
4:43	CBS has some sort of YouTube rival called InnerTube, but it only uses Windows Media Player. The great thing about YouTube is that the player you needed is imbedded in the website so you don't have to worry about it.
4:44	Caller Adam heard Arnold Schwarzanegger on WBBM-AM (Nerds Radio) today. He only mentioned lemon, grapefruit and strawberry crops being damaged by the cold weather.
4:45	So Steve wasn't wrong when he said the orange crop had moved to Florida. He does enjoy a good grapefruit or lemon though.
4:46	Caller Bill wanted to know if Steve had seen the Girls Gone Wild commercial that features footage of weightless, naked girls in the back of an airplane.
4:47	Matt Dahl says that's the Extreme Sports Edition of Girls Gone Wild. There's nothing like a bunch of topless girls mountain climbing.
4:48	Caller Greg is a Two and a Half Men watcher. At the end of every episode, after the credits there's a vanity card for Chuck Lorre Productions. If you freeze frame it every one is a different story and they're usually pretty funny.
4:49	If you got to Chuck Lorre's website you can read all the vanity cards for each episode of Two and a Half Men.
4:50	Steve reads the card from the first episode of Two and a Half Men.
4:52	Caller Rocco knows where Billy Dec's Underground is. Is it still a big deal that no one knows where it is?
4:53	Rocco has known for a while where the club was because he helped build it. Even if Steve reveals the location, it'll just help Billy make more money.
4:54	Underground is located underneath Ben Pao. Rocco wasn't too impressed with the interior decorating.
4:55	Buzz doesn't know where Ben Pao is but it's not like he'll ever go to Underground anyway.
5:01	Buzz watched Knights of Prosperity finally and he wasn't that impressed. There's nothing more painful than watching someone try to be funny and fail. Can't Buzz just watch The Class once?
5:02	On Monday Buzz is going to watch The Class live as it airs at 7:30 like a normal person. When he comes in on Tuesday he is going to give Steve an honest assessment which is why he's been reluctant to watch the show.
5:03	Steve doesn't really care if Buzz doesn't like it. It's not like Pat writes for the show, he just writes down what the writers say.
5:04	Steve would be watching The Class even if Pat didn't work on the show.
5:05	It's time for a Dunkin' Donuts Pick-Me-Up. There's also one for Buzz if he's interested. Buzz is always interested. During the break he sat out near Brendan talking to him and staring at the donuts.
5:06	Steve has an email from a listener about Dunkin Donuts. A few years ago, Steve turned this woman on to the peanut-covered donuts but she can't make the jump to the chocolate cake.
5:13	Ben Gay is here with sports. Has Buzz seen the half-naked man out in the international terminal at O'Hare? It's an ad for the Olympics in Chicago. It makes Ben think of things other than diving.
5:14	Ben was just in Beijing. The NFL is trying to break into the Asian market.
5:15	The Bears intend to have Devin Hester return punts off of Brad Maynard's foot with the full punt return team to simulate a game situation. Normally he just fields punts from a machine.
5:16	Hunter Hillenmeyer believes the Bears defense can play well against any team. Ben feels he's talking just a bit too much this week. They should all keep their yaps shut.
5:17	Hunter might think he's smarter than everyone else because his name is Hunter and he went to Vanderbilt. Ben would love to know how Hunter gets his hair all curly like that.
5:18	Ben feels good about the game on Sunday because it's going to be cold and possibly snowy.
5:19	Reggie Bush said that the cold weather won't effect the way he plays though. He's never played in cold weather though so how would he know? In college they don't play in cold weather climates past November.
5:20	Adewale Ogunleye is listed as probable for Sunday but Mark Bradley will probably not play.
5:21	The Bulls are in Milwaukee to take on the Bucks tonight. Ben Wallace has a pinched nerve in his back but is expected to play. That's more than we can say for Bob of Bob and Ron, who couldn't come in today because he hurt his back.
5:23	The Cubs and Carlos Zambrano are about $4.5 million apart in salary arbitration talks. Ben thought they had him all locked up.
5:24	The Cubs convention is taking place this weekend at the same hotel where the Bears will be staying on Saturday night.
5:25	The night before the last Bears home game Ben was in a certain player's room. He was posed like that Indian statute on Congress, covered completely in cheese. Then everyone else came in and scraped the cheese off with nacho chips.
5:26	Buzz never gets the phone call when stuff like that happens. Ben will make sure to call him this time.
5:35	Steve likes his Rex Grossman a little angry and tired of the stupid questions from reporters.
5:36	Steve was watching CLTV today and it seems like a nightmare being Rex right now. There were all of these reporters around his locker and it was just after a practice.
5:37	Steve has been searching iTunes for a song that ties in with the Saints/Bears game but he hasn't come up with anything yet. There's a part of his pea brain that wants to do a parody song but he's really trying to get away from that kind of thinking.
5:38	Steve did find one really bad song by an artist who originally came to his attention because of his song Super Bowl Polka.
5:39	You don't hear a lot of polkas that say "to gain the great acclaim that it reveals". For a polka those are some deep lyrics.
5:40	If the Bears do win on Sunday we might have found our song. The song also mentions Troy Aikman and Emmett Smith, which is where Steve got confused.
5:41	For years Steve has been trying to complete a song about all 50 states, by using the names in some sort of context. He hasn't tried to do it in a while, once you sober up some of your projects dry-up.
5:42	The same guy that does the Super Bowl Polka, Eddie J. Lemburger has a song called the 50 States Polka. Initially Steve thought that either Eddie had done it first or he had been ripped off.
5:43	As it turns out Eddie's effort is very disappointing.
5:44	Song: Right Place, Wrong Time, Dr. John
5:53	Steve saw Coach on Fox last night and he was very laidback. He was almost laying down and Corey McPherrin was hovering over him like they were going to make-out.
5:54	Pete was hoping to see Coach in the sombrero he was wearing while filming a commercial for his new salsa, which Corey said was very good.
5:55	Coach is trying to be neutral about Sunday's game because he's an analyst for ESPN now. He has said that he likes both teams though. He makes all his money here so he might want to think about siding up, but maybe he doesn't need to when he's got a great salsa on the market.
5:56	We're in the midst of a contest to win tickets to see Jim Norton this weekend. Text Norton to 41059 and be the 1,059th person to win.
5:57	Live read: Grizzly Jack's Grand Bear Resort
5:58	Grizzly Jack's is near Starved Rock, which is a nice area. That's where a bunch of Indians were stranded until they starved by a bunch of other Indians. The other Indians were probably the ones that opened up the casinos.
5:59	Live read: Townstone Financial
6:05	Steve found some more of the Coach interview on the Fox website. There's some great video of Coach in a sombrero and serape.
6:06	There's nothing else on the site other than what was played last night. Steve would like to see the entire interview with Coach all laidback like that.
6:07	Coach did say in the Tribune today that he's still mad at Mike McCaskey. He called him a sneak for the way he handled the firing.
6:08	Coach might have a restaurant on New Orleans, which is why he's on the fence. He says he's a noncombatant. Since when? He must be on Zanax or something, that's why he's so laidback.
6:17	Buzz doesn't see the connection between Coach and salsa. It's money. He probably serves salsa at his restaurant. Steve wouldn't mind trying some of it though.
6:18	Coach takes the money he makes on stuff like salsa and invests in the Rush Arena League team. Actually he probably got points in the team ownership for doing commercials for the team.
6:19	There's a Bulls game at 7:00 tonight which means a hard end for the show. Last night driving home Steve heard a little of the DePaul game which was being called by Zach Zaidman and Dave Corzine. Dave Corzine had something wrong with his voice, it was very scratchy.
6:20	Steve's not sure if it was just because Dave Corzine was sick but if that's how he talks now, it doesn't seem like what you want for a guy calling your game. Does Pete have any audio of that?
6:21	Pete's looking for the game audio as we speak.
6:22	Caller wanted to let Steve know that Ditka also has a line of wines, including the Kick-Ass Red which is the most expensive one.
6:23	News with Buzz
6:24	Steve's not sure if he put the news audio in or Jim did but it's not playing and the CD is stuck in the machine. Maybe Jim would like to come up and explain himself.
6:25	Jim put the CD in and it was all cued up and ready to go. The same thing happened to Jim before and he complained to someone.
6:26	Steve's not sure if he believes Jim. Buzz does though. From now on all the complaints need to go through Steve. Who did Jim tell, Pete or Brendan?
6:27	Jim says he told John Valenta. He doesn't even listen to what Steve says, he's just thinking of going home and eating.
6:28	News with Buzz
6:40	Pete never found the audio of Dave Corzine. He thought there was some on the show tape but it wasn't there.
6:41	We don't archive anything on the station after 7:15 so no one else has it. Pete has some really bad quality of it but that's it.
6:42	Live read: The Little Guys
6:43	Steve likes Dave Corzine and hopefully he's OK. If he sounds like that though he should take a little break from broadcasting.
6:44	Back to Buzz in the news room.
6:45	A San Francisco coffee maker is under fire for producing a new variety called Meth Coffee. There is no actual meth in the coffee but some people are calling it an insult to people dealing with meth addiction.
6:46	There's no way that tweakers care about some company making Meth Coffee.
6:47	That video of the girls beating another girl wet Steve's whistle for the powder puff football video.
6:48	Our own Mary was kicked out of a powder puff football game in high school for being too violent.
6:49	According to Skynyrd, Dave Corzine is sick which is why his voice was all scratchy. It's pretty obvious that he's sick.
6:55	Steve didn't mean to cut Buzz short with the news but we've got a hard end tonight for the Bulls game. Buzz has a few stories left but they're timeless. He did want to read one headline, "Artist Serves Friends Meatballs Fried in Own Liposuctioned Fat"