Merry Christmas, from the Chicago Way

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🗓️ 23 December 2024

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Chicago Way w/John Kass (12/23/24): On the Christmas Edition, John Kass & Jeff Carlin are joined by Jude Russo, the managing editor of The American Conservative, with a look at how the President-elect Donald Trump’s challenges in 2025 and what it means be a conservative in the modern Republican party. Plus, Kass has a Christmas […]

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0:00.0	If you're looking for the perfect gift, you're covered with a gift that's short to wow.
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0:19.6	You know, it's Christmas. It's Christmas time. The time for prayer. The time to visit friends.
0:31.3	And here's the ideal Christmas visit I'd have with you. Here's how it goes. First thing I'd get up early,
0:39.1	go to drive over to a great bakery
0:41.1	and find an excellent coffee cake.
0:43.6	I don't know what they do in other places,
0:46.5	but Chicagoans are taught by our parents
0:49.3	never to go empty-handed to someone's house.
0:52.9	And so I'll bring coffee cake, like a cake
0:56.3	from Kelly Mid Bakery or
0:58.1	Peacack and Sun on 55th and
1:00.6	Arrogansett or maybe
1:02.7	Weber's Bakery on Archer Avenue.
1:06.4	Okay. You pick up a nice coffee cake
1:09.7	but no poppy seed, okay?
1:13.6	Why not?
1:14.7	Because this is not your idealized Christmas dream.
1:18.9	It's my idealized Christmas visit.
1:22.7	And I don't like poppy seed coffee cake, but blueberry, yeah.
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