Chicago Way w/John Kass: Hot Toddy or Buttered Rum?

The Chicago Way

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4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 6 January 2025

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Chicago Way w/John Kass (01/06/25): In the first episode of 2025, John Kass & Jeff Carlin try to make sense of this year’s collection of the Presidential Medal of Freedom recipients, look forward to what 2025 has in store, and share a couple of recipes for staying warm. Plus, Kasso offers up a couple of […]

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0:00.0	So this is a guy who lives high on the hog, and he has this Tammany Hall style attitude to power.
0:08.7	And it is, it's the Chicago Way, absolutely.
0:11.8	The Chicago Way is a deep cultural phenomenon.
0:17.5	It's the Chicago Way.
0:18.8	The Chicago Way, That's the focus.
0:21.2	In a tower by the river, there lived a man.
0:24.2	There was a man who took a stand, with pen and paper in his hand, defeating foes in every ward with a pen more mighty than the sword.
0:40.8	No escape from his ink lasso in a tower by the river.
0:46.8	Castle.
0:47.8	Here you get him.
0:49.1	He pulls a knife.
0:50.5	You pull a gun.
0:51.4	He sends one of yours to the hospital.
0:52.9	You say one of his to the morgue.
0:54.4	That's a fish your pack away.
0:59.1	All right.
1:00.0	So I'm beginning this podcast with Jeff Carlin and a Chicago Way podcast cup.
1:06.3	And you'll see the picture.
1:07.5	It's full of hot, dark buttered rum, cinnamon stick, brown sugar,
1:13.2	and it just tastes perfect on this cold January day.
1:17.2	Welcome to the Chicago Way Jeff Carlin.
1:20.0	Happy dear, John. It is cold. It is very cold.
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