Hmmm ... If Only Our Curiosity Had An Anthem

Curious City

WBEZ Chicago

Society & Culture, Education, Public, Chicago, Arts, City, Radio, Curious, Investigation

4.8 • 642 Ratings

🗓️ 13 February 2013

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

A Chicago transplant asked what — if anything — is unique to Chicago. Answers were slippery, but our songster grabbed the best and wrote a song.

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0:00.0	Planet Money helps you understand the economy. We find the people at the center of the story.
0:05.1	Garbage in New York, that was like a controlled substance. We show you how money influences everything.
0:11.6	Tell me what you like by telling me how you spend your money. And we dig until we get answers.
0:17.5	I had a bad feeling you're going to bring that up. Planet Money finds out. All you have to do
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0:34.4	online at WBEZ.org. Thanks.
0:45.9	Quibble? Wait, what's that? What is... These are just a quipple ways.
0:56.5	That you know you're not in Toronto or Santiago. Just a quipleways. It was a little bit crunchy when I first heard it.
0:59.1	I was glad that I arrived when I did.
1:08.3	You're listening to the Curious City podcast from WBEZ Chicago.
1:10.0	You ask the questions.
1:11.3	We answer them together.
1:22.4	Hello, everyone, I'm Jennifer Brandel, and up top was musician Nick Gage and music engineer Scott Lamps in studio talking about the song that Nick wrote, called Only in Chicago.
1:27.7	The song is actually the answer to a question we got in.
1:31.0	We'll hear more from Nick and Scott in a bit, but first, here's more context on why a simple question had to be answered in song.
1:37.5	The next part is from WBEZ's Weekday Show, The Afternoon Shift, with Rick Kogan.
1:50.1	Lay it on me. I'm ready.
1:52.6	All right. Well, we got a question that was very hard to quantify.
1:56.4	This one, I remember you mentioned this before, and I thought, huh?
2:00.7	I know. We've been working on this for a while, but we got this question in from Brenda Guzman,
2:02.9	who we met in a laundromat not so long ago.
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