The Chicago Way w/John Kass: Charles Thomas steps off the Chumbolone ‘plantation’
The Chicago Way
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🗓️ 21 October 2022
⏱️ 60 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Darren Bailey, the Republican farmer from Downstate Illinois, used my favorite word in his debate with billionaire, Democrat, governor, J.V. Pritzker. |
| 0:12.0 | The word, chumbalone. |
| 0:15.0 | Chumbalone. |
| 0:16.0 | Every time I look at Pritzker, people suck up to them. |
| 0:21.0 | Chumbalone. |
| 0:22.0 | Him, I think, of their word chumbalone. |
| 0:25.0 | And Bailey pronounced it perfectly. |
| 0:29.0 | Chumbalone. |
| 0:30.0 | Chum-ba-lone. |
| 0:32.0 | Not chumbalone. |
| 0:34.0 | Chumbalone. |
| 0:36.0 | Chumbalone. |
| 0:38.0 | What does it mean? |
| 0:40.0 | As Bailey told voters, as he described the failing city of Chicago as Pritzker Bell, the word chumbalone means idiot or fool. |
| 0:53.0 | Chumbalone. |
| 0:55.0 | Bailey is no chumbalone. |
| 0:57.0 | He's a farmer from Xemia or Xemia, Illinois. |
| 1:05.0 | And he doesn't want the people of Illinois to be chumbalone either. |
| 1:09.0 | Chumbalone. |
| 1:11.0 | But it's perfect for my purposes. |
| 1:14.0 | I saw the word used in person directly once in a big Chicago mob trial. |
| 1:22.0 | When the Chicago outfits cop messenger boy, Anthony Paseafumé from Chinatown, who changed his name to Twan Doyle, so that he could become a Chicago cop and become Irish, was called to testify in the outfit federal case known as Family Secrets. |
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