136. The Middle of Everywhere
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🗓️ 15 August 2013
⏱️ 30 minutes
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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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