STEVE’S BLOG: Hey, I’m a guest on the very first ever Pat Boyle Podcast. It’s a video podcast, so I had to put on a clean shirt, comb my hair and shave. I wonder if Bryan LaHair takes extra time combing his hair because of his name. I’m sure that Stacey King brought the hot [...]
STEVE’S BLOG: I know that he probably has some sort of a drinking problem, but is it wrong for me to like Patrick Kane’s drinking style last weekend up in Madison? The t-shirt with “CINCO por DOS igual a DIEZ 5 x 2=10″ and the picture of the two 5′s in the limo with him [...]
STEVE’S BLOG: Friday’s show was a tribute to the cool, calm collected nature of the DahlCast staff. Twice during our Cinco de Mayo extravaganza the Marrantz PMD580 stopped recording. I am at the controls these days, since I changed up the staff a bit, and ironically I don’t remember this ever happening prior to my [...]
Monday night I went to go say goodbye to my old Pal, Moose Skowron at a funeral home in Niles. Moose passed away last Friday, but he will always live on in my heart as truly one of the greatest guys that I’ve ever met. When I was a nine year old kid, I knew [...]
I have been broadcasting in one form or another since I was 16 years old (I’m currently 57), and I have been involved in a lot of firings. Some made sense to me, and some did not. Some were for creative reasons, and some were born out of creative jealously. None of them were fun. [...]
On Monday’s DahlCast, Tom Thayer recounted a delightfully amusing story about a very lame and apparently desperate Mark Sanchez working out in Hawaii on the beach in front of everyone, and attracting quite a crowd. I asked Tom if Kate Upton (Sanchez’s GF) was there. He said he didn’t know who Kate Upton was. [...]
I returned form my Florida sabbatical on Wednesday night, and although I seem to have missed fake Chicago summer, I can’t complain about sunshine and 48 degrees on Opening Day at Wrigley Field. I can’t complain about it because I’m watching the game on TV and it’s 72 Dahlgrees in my house. I am really [...]
If you are a fan of mine, over the years, I’m sure you have heard Lowen and Navarro on the Steve Dahl Show several times. Eric Lowen passed away last Friday after a nine year battle with ALS. Dan Navarro, in a message to their fans, described it as a nine year “standoff”, and call [...]
Joe Walsh has been hard at work in the studio on his new album Analog Man, and as of today, you can stream the title track at Rolling Stone’s web site. The song, as you can imagine, is both awesome rock and roll and also very funny. come to think of it, it’s also a [...]
On Saturday (St. Patrick’s Day) I attended the TooJay’s Corned Beef Eating Contest in Palm Beach Gardens and strapped a GoPro HD camera to the head of one Patrick “Deep dish” Bertoletti. The results are exactly what I’d hoped for; a disgusting display of corned beef carnage. Patrick came in second with 18.5 sandwiches, and [...]
Excuse the gratuitous beach action photo from my wanderings on Friday, but I wanted to get your attention. I’m passing this off as a well-composed action shot, rather than a creeper photo. I don’t know who this girl is, but maybe I can get her to be the “bikini girl” for my show at Park [...]
I was recently asked to take part in the Official City Of Chicago 175th Birthday Celebration web site. They (the Chicago Tourism people) asked me my five favorite ways to enjoy sports in Chicago. they are not only my five favorites, but they are, in fact, essential. You can check out my response and a [...]
I assume that Sacha Baron Cohen started the whole “is The Dictator character allowed at The Oscars” controversy himself, but no matter who started it, Sacha owned it, and the Academy Awards people were schooled. I just happened to be watching E! when SBC dumped the fake Kim Jong Il ashes all over Ryan Seacrest’s [...]
This is the video that ran at the start of the Comcast Sports Net Sports awards last night. My thanks to Tony Esposito for putting up with me and making the bit work as well as it did. I’d like to tell you that I was acting for this and displaying my unique brand of [...]
Our podcast emanates from my basement studio in Western Springs. I like Western Springs and have lived there since 1980. We have a Theater Of Western Springs, and apparently, they let you rock your ass of there.
You might have noticed that we have changed the logo at the top of dahl.com to read The Steve Dahl Network. I am hard at work to make sure that is exactly what our little project will become. In addition to my daily show, we have now added a weekend “Descent into the Archives” show. [...]
We have a new video section on the site called How I Listen. It’s a chance for those of you who are subscribers (us) to show those of you who aren’t subscribers (them) how easy it is to listen to the Steve Dahl Show podcast. I am constantly running into people who say they want [...]
Call it luck, or just good timing, but I am safely ensconced in Florida as Chicago receives it’s first does of the 2011-2012 Winter. I’m going to call it luck, and try not to gloat or rub anybody’s face in it. I am very lucky to have a place down here, a schedule that allows [...]
2011 was a good year for the Steve Dahl podcast empire. We were released from the corporate shackles (and the huge paycheck) afforded me by CBS Radio, and began our subscription service in August. We get more and more subscribers every day, and we are doing all we can to enhance the return on your [...]
For some reason I woke up at 4:00 this morning, and couldn’t go back to sleep. I hate that. I went to take a pee, and the entire way to the bathroom I kept telling myself “don’t think about stuff”, but I did, and the rest is Insomniac Theater history. I got a good four [...]
We had a blast at the final MNF party of the year at Haymarket. They sold over 250 pints of The Explicit Dahlcraft Pale Ale (that’s two barrels), and I am talking to some people about maybe even getting it bottled. That would be a trip, right? For me to make money selling beer now [...]
I named it after myself, but it’s Jim Kid’s recipe, and we’ll be serving frosty pints of Explixit DahlCraft Pale Ale at our Monday Night FootDahl (I named that after myself too). The party is at Hamarket, which is at Randolph and Halsted. We will be in the back room, and the festivities start at [...]
I spoke with Kevin at length on monday (12-5-11) and he was really blown away by the response he got from his first Steve Dahl Podcast Network Show last Friday. He’s already hard at wok in the studio on show #2. Kevin really gets what we are doing here and has some incredible ideas for [...]
After you finish listening to our show today, which was a fine one BTW, featuring Jeff Joniak, Pat Boyle, Buzz Kilman and an episode of Angelo’s Ashes, get ready to hear Kevin Matthew’s first show on the Steve Dahl Podcast Network. It’s a good one, and I’m happy that we can offer it as a [...]
I drove up to Grand Rapids on Saturday to see my old friend Kevin Matthews. Kevin and his wife, Debbie, had a family function to go to at 1: 30, and I forgot about them being in the Eastern time zone, so I had to achieve speeds upwards of 100 mph on 80/94 and 96 [...]
It’s 4:42 AM on Tuesday morning, and I am up early trying to get some work done before taking my dad to the airport. He’s headed back to Los Angeles today, and I’m going to miss him. Dad has had a rough past couple of years, what with the passing my mother in the recent passing of [...]
(1) We celebrated my birthday on Saturday, even though my real birthday was yesterday. (2) My dad showed up from California to surprise me, and man, was I surprised! I think it’s the most surprised of ever been in my life. You’ll hear about that on the show today too. (3) Tom Thayer and I [...]
I wasn’t exactly how long I should leave my brother’s blog up, but I guess it’s been up long enough and you can always check it out in the archives. I am dictating this blog using DragonDictate. I thought maybe if I started speaking my scripts for Fox Chicago for the Friday Fox DahlCast, they [...]
I am on the plane coming home from LA and a trip to help my dad deal with the sudden death of my brother, Rick. It’s been two weeks since I posted the slideshow of our idyllic trip to ME, and as I start to write this, it occurs to me that this isn’t [...]
Janet and I went to Maine for Rachel’s (Pat Dahl’s wife) sister’s wedding. I took a lot of photos with my new iPhone 4S and then I made you a groovy slideshow to watch.I’d never been to ME before and I really fell in love with the place. Monday’s DahlCast really chronicles the trip, so [...]
Even though the bears lost, our first Monday Night Football part at Haymarket Pub and Brewery was a rousing success. The place was packed with subscribers and we even signed up a bunch of folks right on the spot. We are putting together a photo gallery from the evening, so if you have any good [...]
I stopped in at 2 Bici, Frijole Joe Gaspar’s bike shop in Willow Springs and then took a pretty long ride down the I&M Bike Trail there. I made it all the way to Lemont and one of those electric fish barriers there. I don’t think It’s the mail fish barrier on the main canal, [...]
I have been remiss in following my weight training regimen because it has been so damned nice outside. I have been either walking or running outside all week (since the weather got nice) and today (Sunday) I am going to ride my bike to the Brookfield Zoo and back. That’s about a 20 mile ride [...]
On Today’s show (10-6-11), I read the story of a 54-year-old dude getting it on with a 71-year-old lady in the back of a Buick. I took offense to Mary calling it “old people having sex” on the show list for today, since I’m 56, but whatever. It turned out to be a pretty funny [...]
When I was on the Roe And Roeper Show on Wednesday, Roe and I interviewed Levi Johnston, Bristol Palin’s Baby Daddy. I know everybody thinks he’s a tool, but I kind of liked him, because he was a pretty good sport and took a lot of shit off of us. I had thought the interview [...]
Beginning today, we are offering the first month of the Steve Dahl Show (The DahlCast if you will) for free. Yes, that’s right, FOR FREE! We are so confident that once you hear the show and see how easy it is to make it a part of your daily routine, you won’t be able to [...]
Mike Dahl and I went to the Packers at Bears game Sunday and we actually thought that the Bears were going to win. We were telling ourselves pregame that the Urlacher funeral was a distraction, and the embarrassment in NO last week would cause the team to just crush the Packers. We know now that [...]
We’re giving away another stay in my Westin timeshare to the subscriber who gives us the best Halloween costume idea. We don’t need a picture because we want the ideas timely, but if you have a picture, that’s cool too. It’s five days in paradise in spectacular room with a full kitchen and everything you [...]
At around 6:00 pm on Sunday, I officially stopped watching football for the day, and switched over to Fox for the Emmy Awards Red Carpet broadcast. Two of the hosts seem like they are on coke, Nancy O’Dell is her usual hot self, and the guy who announces the show is conducting interviews out of [...]
If you didn’t get a chance to download our 500th DahlCast back when we were offering it as a sample, and you’re still not sure you want to commit to $9.95 a month, you can now buy single-serving DahlCasts in the dahl.com Store. It’s a chance to listen to one that might have caught [...]
Okay, so we are letting people who aren’t subscribers listen to the 500th DahlCast for free. Obviously, we are very proud of having 500 shows under our belts, and we not only want to share, but encourage others to subscribe too. You (or one of your cheapskate friends) can listen at http://dahl.com/dahlcast500. I hope that it [...]
I have become a nut snob. I didn’t set out to be one, but I am one. I now eat only Blue Crab Bay Co Sea Salt Nuts. When Mary first started working for me as my assistant seven years ago, Brendan told her that I required “special” peanuts. As it turned out, they were [...]
This is perhaps my greatest screen capture ever. I was watching CNN cover itself being involved in the non-event earthquake on Tuesday afternoon and this dude in a turban walked by and apparently called his friend to see if he was on TV. I don’t think that we fear that particular style of turban, but [...]
For security purposes I probably shouldn’t be doing this, but for coolness purposes, I just have to. I have a app called iMapMyRide and as promised it maps my bike rides. I took a long one to the Brookfield Zoo from my house 18.99 miles) and when I went to look at it online, i found [...]
Seems like Mr. Shapiro should have known that that Devin and the rest of the Hurricanes weren’t going to be his true friends and bail him out of prison when he saw the size of the birthday cake they got him for his bash at his million dollar Miami party pad. I can’t wait to [...]
Come on people! if I’m a political advisor, I tell my people not to EVER eat a corn dog in public. I know working the Iowa State Fair (or any state fair for that matter) is a key political opportunity, but come on, there is no good way to eat a corn dog in public. [...]
We have one week of subscription podcasts under our belt, and everything seems to be humming along rather nicely. We have a good amount of subscribers and we are adding more every day. Both our iPhone app and our Android app are in there respective stores and or marketplaces and the bugs are being [...]
If you’re seeing this, than the new dahl.com is up and running. It also means that you can subscribe to the podcast, and I hope that you do. It’s hard to put a price on one’s talent and ability, but apparently I have. It’s $9.95 a month and or $99.95 a year. I really have [...]
I’m writing a practice blog for the new dahl.com and trying to figure out all of the bells and whistles of WordPress in time for the new site’s debut on Friday. Once you see the new site you will be able to subscribe to the podcast. That could be as early as Friday evening for [...]
It’s been a crazy week. I think the announcement about the subscription podcast went well, but there’s no real way to tell until 7-29-11 when people can start signing up at dahl.com. There have been a lot of asshole comments on both Facebook and Twitter, but they seem to be from people who don’t actually [...]
It’s funny how last week we were all about the Rapture and this week we’re already over it. I wasn’t really expecting the end of the world as Harold Camping predicted, but I was relieved when 6:00 pm CDT came and went last Saturday. I found this clip of Harold Camping on YouTube last week [...]
The Hawks made one hell of a run to get back in the series, but eventually came up just short. While it didn’t actually accomplish anything, I feel much better with the team having pushed the President’s Trophy-winning Canucks to a Game 7 OT. After barely sneaking into the playoffs, I think the fans needed [...]
I hate online rating sites like Yelp. I use them because there isn’t a better option, but I go into it with a fistful of salt because I am well aware of the way people work. Sure, there are the select few who rate restaurants, products, and everything else the use because they truly want [...]
It was a very rough weekend to be a Chicago sports fan. Actually, now that we’ve got snow on the ground again, it’s rough to be a Chicago fan at all. Weather.com is telling me that it won’t get any better in the next few days, but let’s hope the same isn’t true for our [...]
Finally! RT @Chicagoist: The Illinois Senate approved legisltion that would approve mini horses as service animals. http://t.co/DTilcTsN Today's @jamesvanosdol show features @Candlebox talking about their roots, their new album & how much #KISS kicks ass. http://t.co/VpHaZ3mY Watching @Timcast's video via @Chicagoist of the Bridgeport protest made for good laughs on today's show, at the expense of the #Protestors