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The Chicago Way

Chicago Way w/John Kass: What the FCC’s Carr got wrong about Jimmy Kimmel

The Chicago Way

WGN Plus

Politics, News, News & Politics, Tribune, Radio, Kass, Columnist, Wgn, The, Carlin, Plus, Chicago, Way, John, Jeff

4.71.1K Ratings

🗓️ 22 September 2025

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Chicago Way w/John Kass (09/22/25): Dan Proft, co-host of “The Morning Answer” radio program 5-9 a.m. on WIND AM 560, is this week’s guest joining John Kass & Jeff Carlin with a breakdown of the FCC meddling in the Jimmy Kimmel fiasco and what it will take to push the JB Pritzkers of the world […]

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0:00.0

And where are you, as Charlie Kirk is being remembered or turned into a symbol of hate by some and of love by others?

0:11.6

Where are you, as the nation goes into spasm, the people on both sides, the left and the right fight,

0:19.5

as they hold Charlie Kirk above them as if

0:23.0

you're as a martyr and you're in darkness and you're looking for the light. You're on the

0:28.1

Chicago Way podcast on WGN Plus. So this is a guy who lives high on the hog and he has this

0:36.8

Tammany Hall style attitude to power.

0:40.3

And it is, it's the Chicago Way, absolutely.

0:43.5

The Chicago Way is a deep cultural phenomenon.

0:48.8

It's the Chicago Way.

0:50.4

The Chicago Way, that's the focus.

0:52.8

In a tower by the river, there lived a man.

0:55.8

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.

1:12.4

No escape from his ink lasso in the tower by the river.

1:18.4

Castle.

1:19.4

Here you get him.

1:20.7

He pulls a knife.

1:22.1

You pull a gun.

1:23.1

He sends one of yours to the hospital.

1:24.5

You say one of his to the morgue.

1:26.0

That's the shan pack away.

1:31.3

How old? one of yours to the hospital, you say, I want to hit the mark. That's the Chicago way. Now as promised, Dan Proft, talk show host,

1:35.1

extraordinaire, blogger, extraordinaire, writer, extraordinaire.

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