Well, I don't know the exact story, but I could tell you from what I know, there was a band of men

small, a small group against overwhelming odds, and I don't know if their names were

Pulasik and Zimmerman, but names like that, and they were Americans, and they were fighting

the dragons of Wales, and the wet walls have their own song, Men of Harlic, and all this is quite

amazing and stirring to the soul as you dip that first chip into the Mrs. Grass onion soup dip mix

and take a bite and have a great sip of Scotch and soda because this is the Thanksgiving holiday,

and Jeff and I are here, Jeff Carlin and I, Jeff, the WGN executive producer,

best radio producer in Chicago, my friend, future physics teacher who understands space travel,

pies and cats in that order, and me, John Cass, husband, father, executive editor of John

CassNews.com to place you go for some common sense, and you're here with us as the Thanksgiving

beasts open, and the World Cup begins, and Dan Proff gets all upset, like all the old men with

hair in their ears, and I can't help it because this is the Chicago Way, the World Cup edition,

the Thanksgiving edition, and WGN plus a fire on it, recycling,

use our full-manly declaring to hell with its own bearing, for you are the man.

Look that the Chicago Way is a deep cultural phenomenon, it's the Chicago Way.

The Chicago Way, that's the focus. In a tower by the river, there lived a man.

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, no escape from his ink

class O, in a tower by the river, Castle. Here's how you get him, he pulls a knife,

he pulls a gun, he sends one of yours to the hospital, he sends one of his to the mall,

that's the Chicago Way.

So Jeff Carlin with pumpkin pies on the table, and real cranberry in the pot, and turkey on the

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