Chuck Woodruff
Steve Dahl came upon his award losing podcast to speak about how empty the Billy Goat tavern seems to be these days. The days of printing press workers and a young Bill Murray doing Saturday Night live skits of cheeseburgers making the Billy Goat a must stop Chicago institution are long passed.
The Billy Goat tavern has its spots in America's sprawling malls as I'm sure this shit hole has a branch in the Woodfield Mall. Dahl also mentioned he couldn't even tell if the Madison Street Billy Goat was even still open as it appears to be closed and the one on Lower wacker drive is under some heavy remodeling.
Steve Dahl and his radio partner Garry Meier even wondered how or why one would remodel a Billy goat tavern as its main draw was its connection and look of a seventies style Greek-owned shit hole diner.
Dahl and Meier even wondered why there was such a big draw and historical significance to the fucking Billy Goat Tavern that is difficult to discover and find off of Michigan Avenue. The food and burger if of cheap pink slime ALDI supermarket type and fry basket just this moshpit of potato grease, salt, and ahhh finger nail chips. Billy Goat holds no sway or intrigue in this day of age and era of the luxury restaurant and the billy Goat is a by product of another era where their actually were blue collar busy real" workers in downtown Chicago and not people whose main difficulty is getting dressed and purchasing and searching expensive suits that need to be tailored fit. Perhaps someday Muslim immigrants will flood the downtown Chicago area with halel markets serving actually goats and blessed beef and chicken.
The modern Billy Goat tavern is as sick and unsavory as the Saturday Night live skit which by the way were humorless and dry of no real entertainment back then than actually going into one of these shit hole grease pit dinners that have vastly disappeared form the modern urban oasis. Dahl and Meier were right to notice something is going on at the Billy Goat and it is struggling to remain relevant in a new era.
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