Chicago Way w/John Kass: From running the Pamplona bulls with a Chicago Bear to a tarmac meeting with KGB, Michael Ledwith has some stories to tell
The Chicago Way
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4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 14 June 2024
⏱️ 36 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hey Jeff, do you think that Chicago and the Chicago police are ready for the Democratic National Convention? |
| 0:08.0 | Well, I don't know. Judging on what's happened, I don't think they are. |
| 0:12.0 | Ill-prepared by mayors who don't want any confrontation by protesters, most of them elite rich kids, |
| 0:20.1 | screaming about from the river to the sea, Gaza will be free. |
| 0:25.0 | They hate Jews. |
| 0:27.0 | I guess, you know, some Chicago police officers are Jewish. |
| 0:31.0 | I'd like to see what happens there. |
| 0:33.5 | But I don't think they're ready, Jeff. |
| 0:35.5 | I don't think so, John. I mean, the readers of John Cast News. |
| 0:40.0 | com, no, they're not ready because they've read Michael Ledwith's piece on the |
| 0:45.1 | DNC and how it's going to be absolute chaos and he's our guest this week yeah |
| 0:51.2 | John yes he's our guest this week, yeah, John. |
| 0:52.5 | Yes, he's our guest, Michael Ledwith, |
| 0:56.5 | along with Jeff Carlin of WGM radio, executive producer, |
| 1:01.3 | and me, John Cass, |
| 1:03.0 | executive editor of John Cass News, |
| 1:08.0 | and where are you as you're waiting for that convention, as Chicago turns the great business districts that |
| 1:19.6 | propelled the city, turns them into basically crap. |
| 1:25.8 | You're on the Chicago Way podcast on WGM Plus. |
| 1:29.9 | So this is a guy who lives high on the hog and he has this Tammany Hall style attitude to power and it is it's the Chicago way absolutely. |
| 1:41.6 | The Chicago way is a deep cultural phenomenon. |
| 1:47.1 | It's the Chicago Way. |
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