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| 5:31
| Steve's pretty sure that was the end of that song. He hopes so, he wouldn't want to cheat anyone out of the end of that song, whatever it was. It was unrecognizable to Steve as many Jack FM songs are. |
| 5:32
| It was a Def Leppard song, Love BItes, from the 80s. Steve wasn't paying attention for a lot of the 80s but it was easy to get distracted back then. Steve knows Love Bites but all of their music sounds pretty much the same. |
| 5:33
| When it comes down to it Def Leppard is just a boy band. There's a producer who's name Steve can't remember, maybe Snuffy Waldron, who discovered Def Leppard when they were 16. |
| 5:34
| Steve's thinking of Mutt Lang, who's also married to Shania Twain. She came up to him at some country music convention and handed him her demo. He said he wanted to produce her and in parentheses nail her. He discovered Def Leppard when they were 16 and wrote a lot of their songs so they're basically a boy band. |
| 5:35
| He probably wrote a lot of Shania Twain's songs too, Steve can't see her coming up with Feel Like a Woman. Buzz says he's not familiar with that song. He doesn't know it at all? Yeah right! If Steve went to the Most Played section of Buzz's iPod he'd find that song at the top of the list. |
| 5:36
| Love Bites is a power ballad from Def Leppard's 1987's Hysteria. It's the band's only #1 single on the Billboard top 100. A popular rumor of the song concerns the final seconds and the line "If you've got love in your sights, watch out, love bites." After that people claimed to hear "Jesus of Nazareth , go to Hell" |
| 5:37
| In reality it's Mutt Lange, not to be confused with W.G. "Snuffy" Walden, rambling in a Yorkshire accent "Yes it does, bloody Hell" with the aid of a vocoder. |
| 5:38
| Should Steve just download this song? He's not sure we have it readily available and Pete doesn't always work well under pressure. Of course Steve's looking for it now like Pete would look for something. |
| 5:39
| Pete's not even looking for the song any more. Steve came into the studio and caught Pete going through his porn collection. He was looking at the Cosmo magazine in here but he said he was just adjusting something. Yeah, his pants! |
| 5:40
| Steve could see Todd knowing about the end of Love Bites and removing the last part just so there's no controversy. Someone is saying something at the end of the song but it's hard to tell what it is. |
| 5:41
| Well Pete ended up finding the song and getting to the end faster than Steve did. He's at the top of his game, he's on the top of the mountain. |
| 5:42
| So the R. Kelly trial is supposed to start today, 6 years after he was charged. He has really good lawyers. Brendan is over at the courthouse, he's a credentialed courtroom reporter. |
| 5:43
| Brendan is at 26th and California for the People vs. Robert Kelly trial. It's a little early to be over there isn't it? Did he just sleep there in his car overnight? Brendan arrived at 4:15 to get in the media lottery. |
| 5:44
| There's already a lot of local and national media present and Brendan's had a few incidents with them. When Brendan pulled up he asked a few deputies where to park and when he told them he was from the Steve Dahl Show they went nuts because they were fans. They told him he could park right in front. |
| 5:45
| Brendan parked in front of a Fox 32 van and sort of blocked him in. Then the guy in the van said "Hey, you're not going to leave your car here are you? I was going to put my reporter there." Then some other TV people ganged up on him so he moved his car. |
| 5:46
| Brendan should have left his car there and told him that more people are watching Steve on the closed circuit cameras on this floor than are watching Fox 32 news. |
| 5:47
| Which genius reporter is Fox 32 sending over today? Is that Michelle Guillen? She can't even speak English. When Nancy Pender was on maternity leave Michelle filled in and she basically read every third word from the prompter. When she came back Byron Harlan was basically worshipping her because he was so glad she was back. |
| 5:48
| When Brendan finds out who that space was for we need to get him or her on the phone. |
| 5:49
| From now on Brendan's going to have to start carrying a weapon. He has to do that thing where he pulls up his coat and there's a gun in his waistband. We could also get him a fake satellite dish to put on the top of his mom's Seabring. We could probably spray paint the top of a Weber grill silver and mount it to a broom handle. |
| 5:50
| Brendan wore a suit today so he'd look more legit. Yesterday after the webcast Matt and Brendan went to the Sox game. Brendan was nervous about going though because he wanted to be pristine for today. By that he meant he didn't want to get hammered, which you don't have to do to go to a baseball game. It sounds like Brendan showed restraint. |
| 5:51
| When Steve was in Let's Go to Prison-the movie he was cut out of even though he made special arrangements and wasted a day to shoot his scene-they filmed at 26th and California. It's weird to have the Cook County jail right there. Someone's probably getting buggered in there as we speak. At least the day can't get any worse though. |
| 5:52
| Brendan was bonding with the deputies, making fun of the TV people and talking about the show. They all thought Brendan would be bigger, probably because his voice is so deep. |
| 5:53
| Right now Brendan is standing on the courthouse steps waiting for the media terrace to open. There won't be food there or anything, as far as Brendan can tell it's just an empty patio. |
| 5:54
| Brendan was standing next to the WMAQ/Telemundo news van when someone stepped out, possibly Marion Brooks. It's either her or Kim Vatis. |
| 5:55
| Steve sees that his weekly chat with Patrick "Deep Dish" Bertoletti is coming up. Steve can only imagine the exciting week he's had. |
| 6:02
| Not only does Brendan's mom have a Seabring that he gets to tool around in but so does Andy Bernard from The Office. He got his knot on last night. |
| 6:03
| Pete corrects Steve, it's Michael Scott who has the Seabring and Andy hard the Xterra until Dwight bought it from him using mind control. |
| 6:04
| Alright Patrick Bertoletti is on the phone. Steve keeps forgetting to ask Patrick if he's at the beginning of the day or the end of the day when he calls in every Friday. Steve also needs to find out why we're talking to him every week. |
| 6:05
| Patrick is at the end his day today, he worked from 1:30 and got off at 2:30. Wow, a whole hour? Don't tire yourself out or anything. |
| 6:06
| Patrick actually worked from 1:30 yesterday afternoon to 2:30 this morning. He works three days a week but is still full-time, that way he can travel for competitions. Steve takes back what he said about Patrick not working hard. |
| 6:07
| Patrick is supposed to use his day's off to train but he'll probably sleep until about 4 pm today. He was going to try to eat some hot dogs today because the Nathan's qualifier is this weekend but he might just hit the Aurellio's pizza buffet. |
| 6:08
| There's an Aurellio's opening up by Steve, it might be one of his favorite pizzas. They've got a great sauce and a great crust. |
| 6:09
| Last year's qualifier was at the Mall of America and there were three levels of people in an open area watching it. This year it's at a Cub Food though. They probably don't want all that throwing up out in the open. |
| 6:10
| Patrick's going to Minneapolis with his brother. Imagine riding back from the competition with him. You probably have to stop at every highway rest stop and keep the windows open no matter how cold it is. |
| 6:11
| Patrick will probably have to eat about 30 hot dogs or so, that's all he'll need to qualify. He did fail at the Minnesota qualifier two years ago, probably because he went in with that losing attitude. |
| 6:12
| If he doesn't qualify this weekend he could probably get into the qualifier next weekend in Chicago. But next weekend there's also a gyro eating contest and he doesn't want to miss that. |
| 6:13
| Steve wouldn't want to miss that either, he loves gyros. Everyday he wants to stop and get gyros. He likes the ones you get at any fast food place but the best ones he's ever had were from The Parthenon, which we got for Tina when she left the show. |
| 6:14
| Buzz didn't have the gyros because he was working on the chicken. That looked good too but Steve stuck with the gyros. Steve and Buzz actually can't eat the same thing, they're like airline pilots. |
| 6:15
| Steve ate about 2 pounds of gyro meat on that day, he couldn't stop. Stephanie put too many onions on Steve's gyros because she loves onions. That's not going to help her land a guy. |
| 6:16
| There were giant trays of gyro meat and onions and Steve's first sandwich was 70% onion. Steve sent it back though, that's too much onion. |
| 6:17
| Patrick's not sure how he'll approach the gyro eating contest. There's a surprise. It seems like Patrick just shows up and eats whatever they tell him to eat. He's hoping it's just meat and pita, not any of the sauce or onions. |
| 6:18
| Patrick was hoping they'd just give him a big chunk of the meat and a carving knife. The gyros contest is in Texas where they also had the matzo ball contest. Maybe they're trying to get Texans to eat more ethnic food instead of just BBQ. |
| 6:19
| Patrick will be pretty close to Amarillo, home of the Big Texan steakhouse. Patrick would definitely hit that place with Steve. He does need to go back and eat that steak. |
| 6:20
| Just out of curiosity, that live read Buzz just did, is it a 10 second? If it's longer than 10 seconds it's supposed to go to Steve. |
| 6:21
| Alright let's go back to Brendan who's covering the R. Kelly trial. He's already been aced out of his parking spot by someone at Fox 32. He got a visual on the reporter, she's olive-skinned and dressed in leather. You can see why the van driver was saving the space for her. |
| 6:22
| Brendan is not in the media terrace but he did go talk to one of the deputies and they're going to open that up around 8:30. They're expecting Robert Kelly to arrive around 9 and Brendan was shown the tentative route he would take into the court room. |
| 6:23
| They're going to have the media lottery on the media terrace sometime after that which will determine who gets to go into the court room. |
| 6:24
| The girl in the R. Kelly videotape is now 23. They'll probably serve her a Bloody Mary while she's on the stand to prove that she's of age now. |
| 6:25
| R. Kelly's first marriage was annulled because his wife, Aaliyah was underage when they were married. She's the one who was killed in a plane crash. |
| 6:33
| Live read: Illinois Lottery |
| 6:34
| Alright the web poll for today is brought to us by the fine people at Four Winds Casino. Everyday Steve is ashamed of himself for being unable to remember yesterday's web poll. |
| 6:35
| Yesterday's web poll was "Are you in the mood to hit up a South Beach-style hot spot?" Then Steve read a review of a new bar called Chaise Lounge. Steve got an email from a listener who had been there and said it sucked. |
| 6:36
| She went there with a friend because they had open-air seating. They were told by their server that it was half-price wine bottle night. So they got a somewhat more expensive bottle, only to learn 1 glass in that it wasn't part of the half-price deal. |
| 6:37
| Emailer Lisa went off on her server and they got the bottle at half-price. But the service was bad and the food was marginal at best. This is contrary to the review Steve read yesterday. |
| 6:38
| Today's web poll question is "Are you getting sick of the democratic nomination process?" This is an opinion piece from the Red Eye, which is a paper for the kids. |
| 6:39
| A lot of people have done the math on the delegates and it seems pretty impossible for Hillary to win. The only thing she can hope for is a random act of God. You have to think Bill banks on those and that's why she's still in the race. |
| 6:40
| The writer, Steven Markling, compares the Democratic party to his roommate Eric. Eric is like every twentysomething you know who you can't figure out how he's survived this long. |
| 6:41
| Eric is the kind of guy who makes himself a bowl of refried beans for dinner but leaves the pot on the stove with the dried-up bean residue in there. |
| 6:42
| Eric means well, like the Democratic party. Only the Democrats would create a nomination system giving this much power to delegates and superdelegates. |
| 6:43
| Eric has the hygiene of a trucker but some how he has a girlfriend. He's a guy who puts forth little effort but some how succeeds in life. |
| 6:44
| So no matter what the Democrats do now they'll still probably win in November. And that's the web poll for today. |
| 6:45
| We now go live to Brendan Greeley, reporting live from the Cook County courthouse at 26th and California. They haven't come through with any breakfast for the media yet. |
| 6:46
| Brendan saw a Roach Coach in the area but he didn't see where it stopped. It seems like they should serve the media breakfast, maybe an omelet or oatmeal station or at least some coffee. |
| 6:47
| Brendan is starting to sense a real air of excitement as the building employees stream in. It's probably the biggest celebrity trial in Chicago. There's no way this judge grants another extension, it's been 6 years. |
| 6:48
| Steve has an R. Kelly timeline, going all the way back to birth. He was born on January 8th, 1967 in Chicago. Then it skips ahead to 1991 when he meets manager Barry Hankerson's niece Aaliyah. She was 12 at the time and he went on to produce her first album Age Ain't Nothin' But a Number. That's where the problems seemingly started. |
| 6:49
| This is also the year Tiffany Hawkins claims she began a sexual relationship with R. Kelly. He talked her into participating in group sex with other underage girls. According to her 1995 lawsuit she was 15 at the time. He settled with her. |
| 6:50
| In 1994 Kelly meets his future wife Andrea Lee who was auditioning to be dancer on his 12Play tour. She was 20 at the time. First though he married 15-year-old Aaliyah using a falsified marriage certificate that lists her age as 18. Even Steve could prosecute this case. |
| 6:51
| Kelly's future wife was 20 when they met? That's over the hill to him. 20 is a cougar to R. Kelly. He's the black Drew Peterson. 6 months after the marriage to Aaliyah it was annulled. |
| 6:52
| In 1996 Kelly married Lee and then Tiffany Hawkins filed suit against him. In 1998 Kelly settled with her for $250,000. Then Kelly encounters 16-year-old Patrice Jones while she was out at prom according to a 2002 lawsuit. Steve and Buzz would have been in prison years ago if they'd done any of this. |
| 6:53
| Somewhere between January 1998 and October of 2000 prosecutors claim Kelly made the tape at the center of this trial with an underage girl. If this happened in Mississippi we would have never heard about it. |
| 6:54
| According to Patrice Jones' lawsuit she was pregnant and then persuaded by Kelly to have an abortion. |
| 7:03
| Live read: National City |
| 7:04
| Steve's trying to get to the National City points website but it doesn't seem to go anywhere. Steve's been reading this all week and it says "NationalCity.com\points" and that's probably how they want him to read it. |
| 7:05
| National City sent Steve a bag full of stuff with little sparkly things on it. It was very exciting. |
| 7:06
| Does Pete know who's covering the R. Kelly trial for Fox? Earlier today Brendan was kicked out of his parking space by the guy driving the Fox van because he was saving it for the reporter. |
| 7:07
| Brendan has every right to park in that space and Steve would have just left his car there. Brendan's new though, he's just a cub reporter. Brendan said the Fox reporter was wearing leather and had olive skin. |
| 7:08
| Pete's pretty sure he saw Anita Padilla out there. Does she work for Fox? She would be olive skinned and Steve and Buzz have no problem seeing her in leather. |
| 7:09
| Kid Vatis is covering for NBC but Steve's not sure who's covering for CBS. He turned it on and they had Ed Curran eating hamburgers somewhere. CBS probably doesn't even know the trial is going on. |
| 7:10
| Anita Padilla is covering for Fox, Brendan should go talk to her. Maybe they could go have lunch at one of the many taquerias in the area. Steve knows she's a delightful woman and she grew up in the area so she respects the entity that is this show. |
| 7:11
| Does Buzz want to do some news? Steve and Buzz do have stories to tell from their lunch with Bill Kurtis. They rubbed shoulders with some big wigs, almost too big. Steve's public life in Chicago could have been ruined with a bad performance yesterday. |
| 7:12
| News with Buzz |
| 7:13
| The U.S. Military reported earlier that the top Al Qaeda leader in Iraq was arrested but those reports have since been retracted. Steve has a call he needs to take really quickly. |
| 7:14
| Caller Jim is listening all the way from Sarasota, Florida on the stream. It usually works pretty well although there have been some issues with it lately. They're working on that, that's what they keep telling Steve. They also keep telling him that streaming is the future of radio. |
| 7:15
| Jim wanted to let Steve know that the slash is actually the right key to be using in the National City website. People rarely use the back slash. |
| 7:16
| Alright we've got Anita Padilla on the line. Steve's going to file a grievance with someone because Anita's van driver kicked someone out of his parking space. Anita's talking to her van driver, he's look at her like he doesn't know what she's talking about. |
| 7:17
| Rick the van driver is on the phone, he used to work on Mr. Dahl's AV Club. He didn't kick Brendan out of his space, that was reserved for someone at WGN. |
| 7:18
| Steve heard that Anita is wearing leather today, she's not trying to catch R. Kelly's eye is she? Because she might be too old for him since she's over 15. She's not too old for Steve or Drew Peterson for that matter. |
| 7:19
| Anita just saw Drew the other day. She was covering the immigration march and her van driver said he saw Drew. She thought he was joking but it was really him with Joel Brodsky. Were they just taking in the sights? |
| 7:20
| That's the best Steve could do for Brendan, taking the van driver to task. He was dying any wrongdoing but Steve is going to file a grievance. He has pull in Cook County, doesn't Vic know that? |
| 7:26
| Alright it's back to Buzz Kilman in the newsroom. The U.S. Military is saying that Iraqi forces did not capture the head of Al Qaeda in Iraq. |
| 7:27
| Steve saw or heard somewhere that the guy they caught had a similar name to the Al Qaeda leader. Many of the names over there do sound alike so it seems like you'd want to triple check before you announce anything. |
| 7:28
| Senator Barack Obama is calling remarks made by John McCain-that Hamas wants to see Obama elected-offensive. Obama said it shows that McCain has lost his bearings but the McCain camp is accusing Obama is making age a factor. |
| 7:29
| It does seem like he's lost his bearings though. Didn't he call his wife the c-word in front of reporters? He's gone through a lot of anger management since then. |
| 7:30
| Cindy McCain is still refusing to release her tax returns but she doesn't have to. She's not the candidate and her and McCain have always filed separately. |
| 7:31
| That McCain thing with the c-word wasn't reported because people are hesitant to report that kind of story. How do you report it when that word is used? It's the same thing with Cheney who loves using the f-word. |
| 7:32
| Mark has something on his page that says someone from Hamas is backing Obama but that doesn't mean anything. It's not like Obama is going to get on their side or something. |
| 7:33
| New York governor David Patterson has met with Al Sharpton and members of Sean Bell's family. |
| 7:34
| Any chances of western relief workers getting into Myanmar will have to wait for at least a few days. |
| 7:35
| There was a U.S. fleet stationed right near Myanmar and their job is to aid people after a disaster. Let's just go in there and help people, what are they going to do? |
| 7:36
| There are probably 100,000 people dead, they have nowhere to bury the dead so that's going to create disease. |
| 7:37
| Buzz feels there's a consequence to everything so if we just go in something will happen. How can we just sit idly by while this goes on though? |
| 7:38
| 10 people associated with the Gambino crime family woke up in jail this morning after a sweep in New Jersey last night. |
| 7:39
| Does Buzz want to hear about Myanmar's army? Steve still likes to call it Burma, the birthplace of shaving. |
| 7:40
| The country's armed forces are known as the Tatmadaw, which numbers 488,000. The country ranked 12th in the world for it's number of active troops. So may be we shouldn't go in? |
| 7:41
| Caller Jeff points out that Steve and Rambo are on the same page. In the last Rambo movie he tried to go in and save a group of minorities being oppressed by the hunta. |
| 7:42
| The man accused earlier in the week of punching a camel is selling the shoes he wore during the incident on eBay. |
| 7:43
| Three more witnesses appeared in front of a special Will County grand jury yesterday, investigating the death of Drew Peterson's third wife. |
| 7:44
| The building at NIU where the deadly shootings took place nearly 3 months ago will open to students but they won't hold classes there. |
| 7:45
| Two men and a juvenile in Houston are accused of digging up a corpse, chopping the head off and using it as a bong. What?! |
| 7:46
| We now go back to Brendan Greeley, live at the Cook County courthouse covering the R. Kelly trial. |
| 7:47
| Brendan's been given a route that R. Kelly is going to take up to the courthouse. Are they lining it with 15-year-old girls? It's his gauntlet. If he can get through that the defense feels they can prove he's innocent. |
| 7:48
| Whenever R. Kelly has made an appearance at the courthouse his supporters come out in droves. |
| 7:49
| If Brendan's going to hit on any of these supporters he should check IDs first. We don't be able to postpone Brendan's trial for the next 6 years. He'll be doing time for the next 6 years. |
| 7:50
| There's still a chance that the trial could be further delayed. His lawyers are claiming there's still too much media coverage. It seems like R. Kelly has been settling lawsuits with underage girls since the mid 90s. |
| 7:51
| Steve has that timeline of events in R. Kelly's life, where did he leave off? |
| 7:52
| In January of 2002 R. Kelly was arrested in Miami on 16 additional charges of child pornography. That's in addition to the charges in Chicago. Those Miami charges were dismissed due to an anomaly in the search warrant. |
| 7:53
| The trial's judge overlooked protests from prosecutors and allowed R. Kelly to go on tour twice. |
| 7:54
| This guy has the best lawyers, how does Steve put them on retainer? |
| 8:02
| Pete has the music coming in too loudly on the rejoins. He's got it jacked up and Steve can say that because we're on Jack. |
| 8:03
| Steve keeps meaning to tell Pete that the music was too loud. Pete's crazy, it just keeps getting louder and louder in there. He's probably trying to drive Steve crazy and it is a short drive. |
| 8:04
| Brendan is putting Pete and Jim's Lollapalooza coverage to shame. That was the most disgraceful on-scene reporting Steve has ever witnessed. They were both scared to talk because there was a black guy sitting there and they wanted to look cool. |
| 8:05
| Alright it's time for the Eight O'Clock Taco Bell. Don't forget to email your Taco Bell stories to Tacos@dahl.com |
| 8:06
| Is it time for Steve and Buzz to talk about their lunch with Bill Kurtis yesterday? Coming up Steve and Buzz will be talking to two musical acts on the phone. Lowen & Navarro and Colin Hay are both coming to town but they're not in town yet. |
| 8:07
| By the time Steve gets to his Lowen & Navarro section of iTunes it'll probably be time to talk to them. Right? Buzz? Buzz thought Steve was talking to Mary. Mary's not in the studio is she? |
| 8:08
| Steve can't find them on iTunes, can we just get one of their CDs to play? Steve's frankly tired of the whole thing. He frowns on musicians calling on the phone. He's going to make them play over the phone. |
| 8:09
| Song: We Belong, Lowen & Navarro |
| 8:13
| Alright that was Lowen & Navarro and they're in town this weekend. Part of the reason they can't come in is because Eric has Lou Gehrig's disease. He's an inspiration too, he's still out there touring. |
| 8:14
| Our own Brendan Greeley is out there covering the People vs. Robert Kelly, who likes his wine older than his women. Kelly should be there in about 15 minutes and everyone is gathering around where his car is expected to show up. |
| 8:15
| There's a solid police presence and they're starting to line up. So far Brendan hasn't seen any supporters but there are some protestor. One sign says "R. Kelly: The World's Greatest Pedophile" |
| 8:16
| Based on what Brendan's been told today number of media people will be allowed in the courtroom today. He did get in for opening statements on Monday though. |
| 8:17
| You can't bring recording devices into the courtroom which is why they always have artist sketches. Brendan was searched prior to entering the court house. |
| 8:18
| We'll have to get Brendan some sort of drawing pad so he can make sketches of the trial. They can be stick figures, Steve doesn't care. |
| 8:19
| Live read: Townstone Financial |
| 8:27
| Live read: Woodfield Nissan |
| 8:28
| Steve will be appearing at Woodfield Nissan next Friday from noon to 2 pm. Hell yeah! |
| 8:29
| There's a nice color ad for Woodfield Nissan featuring a photo of Steve. It'll be in the paper sometime next week. |
| 8:30
| Alright it's Peanut Butter Jelly Time with Comcast's Pat Boyle. Steve's actually cabbage patching as this song plays. |
| 8:31
| Mark Buehrle did the peanut butter jelly with a baseball bat to a space heater the day before yesterday. With Juan Uribe's bat too! |
| 8:32
| Juan Uribe's new bat had a few home runs in it though. It was awesome when Buehrle went nuts on that space heater. Steve felt like he was doing it for him. |
| 8:33
| It was the most wood that any White Sox player got on anything in 2 weeks. It was good to see Juan Uribe get that home run yesterday too. |
| 8:34
| Steve didn't see Buehrle attack the space heater, he turned the game off because it was getting bad. Buehrle should take Nick Swisher's bat and beat that against the space heater too. |
| 8:35
| He should go up and down the line-up and break everyone's bats except Carlos Quentin. That guy is great and all the Sox gave up for him was a prospect. |
| 8:36
| It was sort of dangerous for Buehrle to attack that space heater, it could have exploded. Ozzie probably sees it as an acceptable attack but he's from Venezuela. The wiring down there is bare and running down the streets. |
| 8:37
| The Sox embark on a 10-game road trip starting in Seattle tonight and the Cubs open up a 10-game homestand. It is 10 games right? Because Chef Hans was claiming it was 9 games and Steve bet him it was 10. |
| 8:38
| Now Hans owes Steve for that, plus he bet him $100 yesterday that the guy valeting the cars out front of Charlie Trotter's was the maitre' d. Hans promised Steve there would be valets but there weren't. |
| 8:39
| Steve had to pick Hans up and drop him off back at S & W yesterday which was sort of out of his way. And he had to drive around looking street parking. |
| 8:40
| Cedric Benson hired a new attorney yesterday. Based on everything Buzz has seen it does seem like Benson got the short end of the judicial stick. |
| 8:41
| It doesn't seem like he's cut out for the NFL if he's going to be crying for his mom. |
| 8:42
| Cedric Benson has been fighting this thing harder than we've ever seen him fight in a football game. He should have been fighting it more during the actual incident. |
| 8:43
| We now go live to Brendan Greeley, reporting live from the Cook County Court house for the R. Kelly trial. |
| 8:44
| Brendan has gained entry to the courtroom for today and then Monday's opening statements. |
| 8:45
| Brendan's the only dude reporting on this that he can see other than the cameraman. He should take all the reporters out to lunch or something. |
| 8:52
| Hey Pete, turn down that music! We don't care about Jay Reatard! He just plays those rejoins as shout-outs to people he likes. |
| 8:53
| Pete hasn't change the volume at all. It's too loud though, it drowns out Buzz who doesn't wait for the music to fade. Pete is interfering with the R. Kelly coverage because he's obstinate. This is why he lives alone. |
| 8:54
| R. Kelly has not arrived yet but someone spotted a black Escalade a few blocks away. What's he going to pull up in today? An Escalade? A Navigator? |
| 8:55
| Throughout the morning we's chronicled R. Kelly's career. There were a lot of lawsuits filed or threatened and settled involving people not of age. |
| 8:56
| Fast-forward to 2004 when he's on tour. In New York he left the stage after he claimed two men in the crowd threatened to shoot him. He also said someone pepper-sprayed him. |
| 8:57
| Then the tour fell apart and R. Kelly blamed Jay-Z's entourage and sued him. That was falling out of R. Kelly and Jay-Z. |
| 8:58
| They're showing live footage of the court house on TV right now, can Brendan wave so we can see where he is? |
| 8:59
| In May 2004 R. Kelly was granted permission to perform at a New York radio station concert. At the show he was mocked on stage by 50 Cent. 50 Cent and Eminem are known for ripping on R. Kelly. Eminem has several songs that mention him. |
| 9:00
| In 2005 Jay-Z countersued R. Kelly but a judge threw it out. He seems to get a lot of favorable court rulings. |
| 9:01
| Kelly's wife Andrea Lee files a restraining order against him but then drops it and moves out of the house. |
| 9:02
| Meanwhile Kelly's popular Trapped in the Closet series is released in 2004 and 2005. |
| 9:03
| Several rappers including Lupe Fiasco and T-Pain say they don't think this trial has harmed R. Kelly's career. It doesn't seem to have harmed it. |
| 9:04
| In 2007 a fan who snaps a photo of R. Kelly in court does 5 days in the county lock-up. He did more time than R. Kelly has! |
| 9:05
| That's quite a timeline the Sun-Times put together for R. Kelly. It seems like his lawyers have been very busy. |
| 9:06
| No sign of R. Kelly yet. He was scheduled to appear in court at 9 am so he's already late. |
| 9:07
| Alright, Lowen & Navarro are on the phone. It's morning in Milwaukee. Musicians always complain about the morning. When Dan's at home he gets up at 6 am but he gets up later on the road. |
| 9:08
| That's all just a lie, there's no way Dan gets up that early at home. Lowen & Navarro are playing the Park West tomorrow night at 7:30 but there are a couple of openers. |
| 9:09
| They'll be playing some songs from the new album which comes out in July. You can check out all the info at LowNav.com. |
| 9:10
| Steve's going to try to come out to the show tomorrow. Are they going to do their full-out jam session where they play for 3 hours? |
| 9:11
| They're going to be mainly focusing on the new album, they have to learn this songs some how. Will they play the same song several times? |
| 9:12
| Lowen & Navarro are playing at Shank Hall in Milwaukee. It sounds like something from SCTV . |
| 9:13
| Steve has a photo of Eric skiing which is something Steve can't do and he doesn't have anything wrong with him. |
| 9:20
| Did that guy just say R. Kelly is a jinx? Steve was in transition and putting on his headphones so maybe he missed it. |
| 9:21
| He said genius not jinx. He is a genius and he has a really good legal team. He is 25 minutes late for his court appearance though. If Steve and Buzz did that they'd be locked up as soon as they arrived. |
| 9:22
| Colin Hay is on the phone, he heard genius as well. Steve thought Colin said he "had a genius" It's that Australian accent. |
| 9:23
| Actually Colin has a Scottish accent but most people think it's Australian because that's where the band is from. It occurred to Steve when he was listening to Are You Looking at Me that Colin wasn't from Australia. |
| 9:24
| He came to Australia when he was a teenager. That's a pretty good time to be traveling halfway across the world. |
| 9:25
| Colin's in town tomorrow at the Lakeshore Theater in his adopted town of Chicago. He always has a great time here. |
| 9:26
| Colin is going home next week but then he's going out on tour with Ringo Starr. Home is LA right, not Scotland? This paper Steve had his confusing he thought there were two shows tomorrow. |
| 9:27
| The doors open at 6:30 and then there are some openers and then an intermission and then Colin plays. That intermission means plenty of time for him to sell t-shirts and CDs. |
| 9:28
| The next time Colin is in Chicago he's definitely going to stop by the studio, it just works much better that way. |
| 9:29
| Alright let's go back to Brendan covering the R. Kelly trial gavel-to-gavel. R. Kelly has still not shown up but the hearing was supposed to start at 9 am. |
| 9:30
| They've given him 6 years to show up at 9 am and he can't even do that. He's in contempt of court right now. |
| 9:31
| The crows are growing though and more and more fans are showing up. There are several autograph seekers lining up. |
| 9:32
| One girl was professing his innocence and wanted him to sign the covers of the Sun-Times and the Red Eye. They're both pretty negative, he's going to love that. She probably won't make the jury. |
| 9:33
| The judge in the case was told in a secret hearing that a witness in the case was paid off. An Atlanta woman expected to be called as a witness was allegedly paid by one of Kelly's aides to return an incriminating sex tape. At least he had nothing to do with it other than maybe being in the tape. |
| 9:34
| Brendan has to say the fan was young and hot but she was of age so that's probably a turn off for R. Kelly. It doesn't mean Brendan can't try to work that though. Just don't videotape it. Or if he does videotape it, don't make any copies. |
| 9:35
| Steve doesn't understand how you can be 35 minutes late for your court appearances. Buzz is wondering if there's been any talk about the repercussions of him being late. Brendan hasn't heard anything yet. |
| 9:36
| You can't just call the judge and ask him if you can wait until the traffic dies down and the reporters leave right? Maybe R. Kelly can, the man's a genius. |
| 9:37
| The Atlanta woman who's expected to testify that she had a three-way with R. Kelly and an underage woman is said to have been in love with R. Kelly. And who wouldn't be? |
| 9:38
| It's unclear how much Kelly's aide paid this woman to turn the tape over. Judge Vincent Gaugin held 4 secret hearings in April and they supposedly dealt with the potential trial testimony of the Atlanta woman. How do we know about secret hearings? |
| 9:39
| The underage girl in this video is the girl in the other video right? Steve would want to postpone his trial too. The Atlanta woman received immunity for her testimony in the case. |
| 9:40
| At one point the aide arranged for the Atlanta woman to take a polygraph test. It's funny to think of the aides giving out polygraph tests. He's got his own polygraph machine, probably to make sure girls aren't of age. |
| 9:41
| Eventually the woman received money and arranged for the tape to be sent to the aide. At some point after the Atlanta woman's dealings with the aide prosecutors became aware of her and wanted to make her a witness. |
| 9:50
| Live read: Illinois Lottery |
| 9:51
| Back to our court reporter Mr. Brendan Greeley. Some how during that break R. Kelly slipped by. He pulled up in an Escalade. Did it have Sprees on it? |
| 9:52
| He hoped out riding shotgun and a couple of guys got out of the back and walked with him. He probably went with shotgun because he was using the glove box to put a bagel on or some other food. |
| 9:53
| Live read: Seattle Sutton |
| 9:54
| So R. Kelly pops out of shotgun and the car is fully tinted, except in the front. Buzz has some illegal tinting and he's paid the price for it. Steve sees a lot of illegal tinting and he wants to know why he's always being pulled over. |
| 9:55
| R. Kelly was completely corn-rowed, like the Michigan Wolverines helmet. He was wearing a dark suit but it all happened so fast. Steve's going to accuse Brendan of going fan because we tried to contact him during the break and he didn't answer. |
| 9:56
| Brendan might have gone fan but he can't be doing that if he's going to be reporting on this case. |
| 9:57
| So R. Kelly's lawyers must have been overruled on their request to postpone the trial. They probably told him to hang out in the area and then show up before 10 if he had to. |
| 9:58
| Brendan will probably recap his whole day again on the Matt Dahl Show webcast today. But we get it first right? |
| 9:59
| Some say R. Kelly is a genius, Steve says he's an idiot. We'll see who's right. |
