Chicago Way w/John Kass: A manifesto on baby Capones and Christopher Columbus

The Chicago Way

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🗓️ 8 August 2023

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Chicago Way w/John Kass (08/07/23): John Kass & Jeff Carlin are looking for answers and statues after Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson calls a mob young people looting a convenience store ‘baby Al Capones’ while remaining silent on the fate of three Christopher Columbus statues that were torn down in the dead of night over 3 […]

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0:00.0	So this is a guy who lives high on the hog and he has this
0:05.0	Tammany Hall style attitude to power and it is, it's the Chicago way.
0:11.0	Absolutely.
0:12.0	The Chicago way is a deep cultural phenomenon.
0:17.0	It's the Chicago way.
0:19.0	The Chicago way.
0:20.0	That's the focus.
0:21.0	In a tower by the river, there lived a man.
0:24.0	There was a man who took a stand with pen and paper in his hand.
0:35.0	Defeating foes in every ward with a pen more mighty than the sword.
0:40.0	No escape from his ink lasso in a tower by the river.
0:46.0	Castle.
0:47.0	Here's how you get him.
0:49.0	He pulls a knife.
0:50.0	You pull a gun.
0:51.0	He sends one of yours to the hospital and gives him one of his to the log.
0:54.0	That's your back away.
0:59.0	Okay, Jeff Carlin.
1:01.0	It's late.
1:02.0	Well, not late August.
1:03.0	It's early August.
1:04.0	Late summer.
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