Mike Royko

I said, no, I made good ribs.

He came back three days later with a newspaper columnist in Chicago named Mike Royko, who said he made good ribs, but black people got all the credit for it.

He was besieged with letters and phone calls.

And that's what begat the first Mike Royko rib contest.

Salesman came in and says, Hey, let's get into this rib contest.

And, uh, Having never done anything like that before, I said, sure.

Um,

but it's, uh, John Belushi plays a journalist at Chicago Tribune based on Mike Royko.

Do you know who Mike Royko is?

I don't.

You probably told me when we watched it.

It's a foul wind going through the city.

Yeah.

So Mike Royko held those guys to... held those guys to task and um so uh belushi plays essentially plays him uh not in name but you know it's a character based on him right and he kind of burns out and he's uh sent to do a story at the continental divide so up in the rockies um on an environmentalist who is trying to save these birds that are up there played by blair brown and he's it's a fish out of water story because he's a total city guy and he doesn't know how to camp and he doesn't know how to survive in the wilderness and she has like a cabin almost like grizzly adams yeah love her cabin by the way mountain yeah out in the middle of nowhere on and uh She can't stand him because she's an antisocial person.

Were

you a reader of Mike Royko?

Yeah.

Oh, yeah.

Get away from the car, moron.

Did you take a look at this imbecile? What are your qualifications, stupid? Are you one of the 9,000 suck-ons Brandon Johnson has hired? You see, squirrel, you don't have to read Royko's book, Boss, to understand this is how they build this army.

This is how you destroy our great city.

You just keep hiring simpletons, morons that couldn't get jobs with corks on their forks during Thanksgiving, like the interim commissioner.

Has anything changed, that is, since you were seven?

Well, I know that you're channeling your inner Mike Royko about the boss, Daley.

But Daley was not that far off when you think about it.

Now, granted, that was before Watergate, before they knew what was going to happen.