Mick Dunkey
speaker
28 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Dec 2025
last heard 12 Dec
Mick Dunkey’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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He was at the gym.
I'm a regular weightlifter, Nick, even though you'd never know it from looking at me because I'm not a very big guy.
But I'm pretty sure I was in the weight room at that time.
On the floor, on the exercise mat.
I was maybe doing sit-ups or stretching, and the TV was like above the exercise mat.
The TV was playing the news.
The first one, the groundbreaking one, happened when the city privatized the Chicago Skyway, which is, it's not even a full highway.
It's like a shortcut to Indiana.
It's a shortcut to Indiana.
Thank you.
And the Chicagoans who do use it are people going to their summer homes in Michigan.
And if you don't want to pay the tolls, you just drive on local roads.
That's exactly the way it was received.
And Mayor Daley was praised for it.
And he remembered that praise and then proceeded to look for other stuff to sell off.
And again, it was another thing that people didn't have to use because the people who used it were in large part tourists, suburbanites.
I love that Chicagoans love screwing over the occasional tourist.
Immediately, my BS antenna went up, and I knew that we were going to have to take a closer look at this.
But you knew you had a story.
I knew I had a story.
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