and this one poor guy was here, and they were like on both sides of him just going nuts, and i m like, you know, that s it. you know, you guys got to go. but uh he says, you know man, you re a real buzzkill. and uh it stuck to me ever since. i mean it s carved in stone pretty much. anthony: chicago is famously a sports town. the bulls, the bears, the cubs, the white sox. to you and me, those are just names, but to many chicagoans, a cause, a defining lifestyle choice. the rivalry between cubs and white sox fans, for instance, is particularly vicious. bruce: difference between a cubs fan and a sox fan is a cub fan goes to the park, they enjoy themselves, they have fun. the team wins, that s okay, if
thing you think of when you think about chicago is not ass burning szechuan food, but maybe, maybe it should be. stephanie: what i think a lot of people come they think that chicago is like on the magnificent mile and you know they re like, should we go down to navy pier? i m like, no. anthony: right. stephanie: so it s nice to go out to the neighborhoods and there s so many ethnicities everywhere so going places like that is really awesome. anthony: one of my favorite chicagoans, chef, restaurateur stephanie izard from girl and the goat and her colleague peter wong enlighten me. look, i knew chicago was a city of very diverse neighborhoods, everybody says so but this i didn t know about, now i do. so where are we and why, why are we here? i have to say i m really glad we re here. but why? stephanie: we re at szechuan cuisine. so after going to china we were just talking about, that chengdu is my favorite place, but peter s actually never been to chengdu and so coming bac
smarter than cars, girls or where s my money? lupe: um, i guess it depends on where you come from, and do you feel the obligation to where you came from. a lot of people in the hood won t take me serious. they won t take chuck d serious, because at least you take somebody who s rapping about crack, rapping about dope, that is actual thing that they can go get and sell and make money that day if they wanted to. you can t preach to them black panther party or, or, you know, marcus garvey or this because they can t go out and get it and actually sell it and monetize it and make some money off it. anthony: despite an appalling murder rate, questionable leadership, chicagoans aren t going anywhere any time soon. shirley: the southern people we brought our spirit here, so chicago have like a warm spirit and you know loving spirit. lupe: it s a beautiful place, it s a genuinely beautiful place where you have to redefine
because at least you take somebody who s rapping about crack, rapping about dope, that is actual thing that they can go get and sell and make money that day if they wanted to. you can t preach to them black panther party or, or, you know, marcus garvey or this because they can t go out and get it and actually sell it and monetize it and make some money off it. anthony: despite an appalling murder rate, questionable leadership, chicagoans aren t going anywhere any time soon. shirley: the southern people we brought our spirit here, so chicago have like a warm spirit and you know loving spirit. lupe: it s a beautiful place, it s a genuinely beautiful place where you have to redefine beauty is to you. when you go to different neighborhoods, and it s really bad. but even in that there s still a beauty in the people and just from a cultural front, you know, we got everything here, you know? we got you want capoeira, we got capoeira.
stephanie: so it s nice to go out to the neighborhoods and there s so many ethnicities everywhere so going places like that is really awesome. anthony: one of my favorite chicagoans, chef, restaurateur stephanie izard from girl and the goat and her colleague peter wong enlighten me. look, i knew chicago was a city of very diverse neighborhoods, everybody says so but this i didn t know about, now i do. so where are we and why, why are we here? i have to say i m really glad we re here. but why? stephanie: we re at szechuan cuisine. so after going to china we were just talking about, that chengdu is my favorite place, but peter s actually never been to chengdu and so coming back it was like, let s go to chinatown and try to find places to find those things we ate for breakfast every day. anthony: pork dumplings in chili oil, start the fire.