somebody asks you where you re from and you answer, i m from chicago, nobody s going to give you a patronizing response like, oh, chicago s charming. hey, chicago. more likely it ll be wow, chicago or oh, chicago. they ll be impressed. chicago is the town, a city that doesn t ever have to measure itself against any other city. other places have to measure themselves against it. it s big, it s outgoing, it s tough, it s opinionated and everybody s got a story. i took a walk through this walk through this beautiful world felt the cold rain on my shoulder found something good in this beautiful world i felt the rain getting colder as late afternoon gives way to evening in chicago s old town, it s time to drink. though to be fair, almost anytime it s time for a drink at the old town ale house. the chorus assembles to give their opinions on matters of the day, subjects of great import to this city on the lake, this city of broad shoulders, this
i heard somebody yell, she s not breathing, and they called an ambulance. and that s kind of all that i remember. and when i came back a few days later like i walked in the door, everybody was like yeah, you re better! and then a couple of the regulars were like that guy, that guy said that thing. and i was like what did he say? and he said, when you were on the floor foaming at the mouth he said, they said it got really quiet and he said, i ll have what she s having. so yeah, so that was fun. but i found out later what was really interesting about was that right away my mind is the american cheeseburger, it s the sort of feeling you get when you eat it. but you remember you re sitting with a friend and enjoying a memory that takes you back to long ago when you were young. and as we follow paul backstage, watching him slowly sip his coffee. hey, what s going on daniel? you remember that comedy