STEVE DAHL: WHAT’S HE GOING TO DO WHEN HE GROWS UP?

At 6 a.m. every weekday morning, Steve Dahl mans the microphone at radio station WABX. A typical Dahl monologue might run as follows: 'I don't like to brag but Farah Fawcett and I lived together for a while. Of course she picked up Lee Majors on the rebound after I broke her little heart. I couldn't help it. I just couldn't be bothered.' In an Oak Park deli, over a corned beef sandwich, Steve Dahl discussed his radio personality. 'The reason I say things like that is because guys can relate to it. I mean, how hip would it be to live with Farah Fawcett?'

Relatability is the key to Dahl's radio endeavors.. In his attempt to identify with the audience, he has created one of the most personal radio programs wafting across the FM airwaves. Sandwiched inbetween the Blue Oyster Cult and Bruce Springsteen are Dahlian discourses on a host of subjects, ranging from his mom back home to his plans to open a Garden of Eden souvenir stand in Detroit (after a geologist theorrized in the Free Press that the Motor City may have been the original couple's Eotanical playground). Another time, in keeping with the early morning wake-up format of the show, Dahl poured himself a bowl of cornflakes so that he could crunch along with his listeners as they prepared themselves for another dose of workaday reality.