136. The Middle of Everywhere

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🗓️ 15 August 2013

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Chicago has given the world more than sausage, crooked politics, and Da Bears.

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0:00.0	When I say Chicago, you say hot dog.
0:08.1	Ja, deep dish.
0:09.4	Sausages.
0:10.1	The beers.
0:11.1	Water.
0:12.1	Swatter houses.
0:13.6	Windy city sticky cabbage.
0:15.1	White dogs.
0:16.1	Cubs.
0:17.1	Oh, second city, of course.
0:18.1	Cold weather.
0:19.1	The L.
0:20.1	B.L.T. pizza.
0:21.1	Chicago.
0:22.1	Chicago.
0:23.1	Chicago.
0:24.1	All right, I get it.
0:28.8	I know I've spent a fair amount of time in Chicago myself, and I like it for a lot of reasons.
0:33.5	The fact is that we don't talk about Chicago the way we talk about New York or Los Angeles,
0:39.1	or for that matter, Austin or Boston even Vancouver.
0:43.5	Now why is that?
0:45.8	And more important, why should we care?
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