Kathy Griffin

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1,433 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 14 Apr

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And we had something called the Chicago 7.

So it was a very politically charged city.

And luckily, my parents were very intellectual, especially my dad.

My dad was like book smart.

My mom was like real life smart.

And you had to come to the dinner table knowing your shit.

Because we would go over what was in the papers, not one newspaper, but multiple papers for the city of Chicago.

And there was always an alderman on the take or some scandal going.

We were always pissed off at our mayor, whoever the mayor was.

Honey, talk about a machine.

They literally called, he was so corrupt, they called it the Daily Machine.

Yes.

And so I remember being raised Irish Catholic.

I'm now a fallen Catholic, but being raised Irish Catholic, we were sort of in the machine.

Yeah.

But I had an uncle that was a real racist cop.

And so hearing him say the N-word at that age was very shocking.

But it was also a culture where

I would have gotten in trouble if I had corrected him.

Of course, now I reflect on that.

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