Chicago comic with da accent turns city's municipal code into laughs in new podcast
<p>Musician and comedian Al Scorch thinks he got the “last gasp” of an old school childhood growing up in the 1980s and ‘90s on Chicago’s blue collar Northwest Side.</p><p>“Pre-cell phone, pre-internet … where you're just kind of running around the neighborhood in a pack with your friends all summer,” Scorch said. “You're coming home when the streetlights turn on.
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<p>Musician and comedian Al Scorch thinks he got the “last gasp” of an old school childhood growing up in the 1980s and ‘90s on Chicago’s blue collar Northwest Side.</p><p>“Pre-cell phone, pre-internet … where you're just kind of running around the neighborhood in a pack with your friends all summer,” Scorch said. “You're coming home when the streetlights turn on. You're calling up your friends' houses on their landline.”</p><p>That “last gasp” was more like a deep inhale that shaped Scorch into a Chicagoan’s Chicagoan with an imaginative sense of humor and authoritative knowledge of the city. He’s been exhaling Chicago-centric creative projects that have gained him tens of thousands of followers in the decades since.
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- <p>Musician and comedian Al Scorch thinks he got the “last gasp” of an old school childhood growing up in the 1980s and ‘90s on Chicago’s blue collar Northwest Side.</p><p>“Pre-cell phone, pre-internet … where you're just kind of running around the neighborhood in a pack with your friends all summer,” Scorch said. “You're coming home when the streetlights turn on.
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Chicago comic with da accent turns city's municipal code into laughs in new podcast
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