WEBVTT 1 00:00:03.360 --> 00:00:05.380 Well, it's just out here, it's kind of boring. 2 00:00:06.300 --> 00:00:08.760 It's not kind of, it definitely isn't. 3 00:00:16.060 --> 00:00:20.340 Is my map in? 4 00:00:20.340 --> 00:00:23.440 I know that my bus map is here. 5 00:00:52.320 --> 00:00:53.720 Yeah. 6 00:01:10.340 --> 00:01:11.400 Ladies and gentlemen. 7 00:01:14.900 --> 00:01:16.960 Ladies and gentlemen. 8 00:01:16.960 --> 00:01:19.180 I have your attention just for a moment. 9 00:01:20.660 --> 00:01:20.880 Please. 10 00:01:21.880 --> 00:01:23.920 Ladies and gentlemen, we have your attention. 11 00:01:24.060 --> 00:01:25.640 We'll keep the program very short. 12 00:01:27.840 --> 00:01:36.100 I know it's hard to get Irish women to be quiet when they're having a drink, but just give us your attention for less than five minutes, please. 13 00:01:40.560 --> 00:01:48.100 I want to have the opportunity to introduce to you a very good friend of mine and a very good friend of yours who we're here to honor tonight. 14 00:01:48.780 --> 00:01:52.700 A man who has done a lot in a very short amount of time. 15 00:01:53.820 --> 00:02:00.160 As you know, four years ago, Brian ran for Alderman and everybody said, well, he can't beat the incumbent. 16 00:02:00.940 --> 00:02:02.260 Would be an impossible feat. 17 00:02:05.400 --> 00:02:14.000 You ran against someone that was in office for a long time, someone who had been a United States Congressman for years and had run for a United States Senator. 18 00:02:14.640 --> 00:02:16.340 And everybody said, well, you guys are crazy. 19 00:02:16.620 --> 00:02:17.580 You can't do it. 20 00:02:17.960 --> 00:02:18.700 You can't win. 21 00:02:19.260 --> 00:02:22.880 But I said, well, you know, if you don't try, you certainly can't win. 22 00:02:24.220 --> 00:02:26.840 I met Brian 20 years before that. 23 00:02:27.280 --> 00:02:29.740 And we were always the underdog. 24 00:02:29.740 --> 00:02:33.020 And somehow we always managed to prevail. 25 00:02:34.700 --> 00:02:40.980 I would like to introduce to you now the only Republican Alderman in the city of Chicago. 26 00:02:41.620 --> 00:02:45.100 And he earned it the hard way by going out and knocking on doors. 27 00:02:45.540 --> 00:02:50.980 I remember four years ago when he ran the first time, he wore out five pair of shoes, knocking on doors. 28 00:02:51.120 --> 00:02:56.640 He'd go out every single day at three o'clock, take a little break at six and go back out and work till nine. 29 00:02:56.960 --> 00:02:58.060 He never got tired. 30 00:02:58.060 --> 00:02:59.040 He never quit. 31 00:02:59.320 --> 00:03:02.420 And he never listened to people who said, you can't do it. 32 00:03:02.900 --> 00:03:05.520 Because guys told me that 20 years ago, too. 33 00:03:05.660 --> 00:03:06.620 He said, you can't win. 34 00:03:06.680 --> 00:03:08.080 You're a Republican in Chicago. 35 00:03:08.320 --> 00:03:09.220 You can't win. 36 00:03:09.500 --> 00:03:12.760 But believe me, you can if you have a guts to go out and do it. 37 00:03:12.980 --> 00:03:15.060 Here's a guy with a lot of guts, Brian Doherty. 38 00:03:15.520 --> 00:03:16.560 Come on up to the panel, Brian. 39 00:03:18.380 --> 00:03:19.280 Thank you, Roger. 40 00:03:23.180 --> 00:03:24.020 Thank you. 41 00:03:24.020 --> 00:03:29.700 And I learned how to do this from Roger, from watching him for many years and working with him. 42 00:03:30.060 --> 00:03:31.740 And he's the leader of our organization. 43 00:03:31.820 --> 00:03:36.180 And he leads by example because I still haven't knocked on as many doors as he has. 44 00:03:36.900 --> 00:03:41.480 But I just want to take a short time to say thank you very much for all your support. 45 00:03:42.160 --> 00:03:48.540 I know many of you, not just for your support today and for the election, but many of you I've known from years since I was a child, 46 00:03:48.540 --> 00:03:53.640 since I was a baby, for the support that you gave my family and myself throughout the years. 47 00:03:54.360 --> 00:03:57.260 And how the support that you give each other as you're in and you're out. 48 00:03:57.600 --> 00:03:58.640 Mom, Dad, thank you. 49 00:03:58.640 --> 00:03:59.620 I love you. 50 00:03:59.780 --> 00:04:10.480 My niece and nephew, my sisters and brothers, my wife, Rose, who has to take a lot of the brunt of the work around the household during the campaign time, 51 00:04:10.660 --> 00:04:12.160 and for that matter most of the time. 52 00:04:13.020 --> 00:04:18.100 But I just want to say sincerely from my heart, thanks for all your support throughout all the years. 53 00:04:18.100 --> 00:04:22.020 I don't think we'll have a problem. We'll get the vote out. We're going to have another victory in about a week. 54 00:04:22.100 --> 00:04:22.800 Thank you. 55 00:04:26.460 --> 00:04:28.940 I do have a couple requests. 56 00:04:30.520 --> 00:04:33.220 One is for Jimmy Reardon to give us a dance. 57 00:04:34.160 --> 00:04:37.280 Championship dancer. And that my father, Dan, sing us a song. 58 00:04:38.160 --> 00:04:41.900 And that I get a nice cold pint of Guinness. Thank you. 59 00:04:59.160 --> 00:05:01.960 Thank you. 60 00:05:45.160 --> 00:05:47.960 Thank you. 61 00:06:16.680 --> 00:06:18.080 Hey. 62 00:06:27.660 --> 00:06:28.220 Thank you. 63 00:07:16.680 --> 00:07:18.080 Sweetest honey. 64 00:07:53.100 --> 00:07:54.820 Dan Doherty is going to give us a song. 65 00:08:18.100 --> 00:08:23.400 Think of the land where we once had a home. 66 00:08:24.380 --> 00:08:30.720 But our homes are destroyed and our soils confiscated. 67 00:08:31.420 --> 00:08:37.680 The hand of the tyrants brought plunder and woe. 68 00:08:38.000 --> 00:08:44.000 The fires in our quenched and our hearts desolated. 69 00:08:44.000 --> 00:08:50.900 In our once happy homes in the county Mayo. 70 00:08:52.960 --> 00:08:59.260 Long years have gone by since with hearts full of sorrow. 71 00:09:00.080 --> 00:09:05.320 The land of the shamrock we left far behind. 72 00:09:06.820 --> 00:09:12.660 But oh, how we'd like to be going back tomorrow. 73 00:09:12.660 --> 00:09:19.660 To the scenes of our youth which we still bear in mind. 74 00:09:21.140 --> 00:09:27.960 The days of our childhoods, now we regret them. 75 00:09:28.700 --> 00:09:34.580 They cling to our vision wherever we go. 76 00:09:35.460 --> 00:09:41.880 And the friends of our youth, we will never forget them. 77 00:09:42.660 --> 00:09:49.440 They too are exiled from the county Mayo. 78 00:09:51.100 --> 00:09:57.660 From the starry Galala, from Swainsport to Ballard. 79 00:09:58.780 --> 00:10:04.500 Valley Harness and Westport and down Castle Bar. 80 00:10:04.500 --> 00:10:11.500 Cashe Mock and Clare Morris, Ben Mallet and Daryl. 81 00:10:13.060 --> 00:10:19.500 Emily Began, Bing Anton, that's famed near and far. 82 00:10:21.080 --> 00:10:26.500 Bell, Bell and Row, Ballina and Bohola. 83 00:10:27.740 --> 00:10:32.680 Elok and Foxport a few miles below. 84 00:10:34.100 --> 00:10:39.680 Newport and Kong with our straight and Malala. 85 00:10:41.340 --> 00:10:46.460 Shavlin's down too in the county Mayo. 86 00:10:48.040 --> 00:10:53.680 Then boys put together in all kinds of weather. 87 00:10:55.260 --> 00:11:00.680 Don't show the white feather wherever you go. 88 00:11:00.680 --> 00:11:07.680 Be like a brother and help one another. 89 00:11:09.100 --> 00:11:16.720 Like the true hearted men from the county Mayo. 90 00:11:17.760 --> 00:11:18.180 Jimmy! 91 00:11:59.040 --> 00:12:00.460 When I 92 00:12:00.460 --> 00:12:10.680 To glare and down the mountainside 93 00:12:11.460 --> 00:12:21.340 This summer's gone, had all the flowers died 94 00:12:23.100 --> 00:12:34.480 Tis you, tis you, must go and die, must fly 95 00:12:35.340 --> 00:12:49.380 But how can I, when the sun's in the door 96 00:12:49.380 --> 00:13:01.880 All who ran through the valley, trees crushed and white snow 97 00:13:03.700 --> 00:13:16.080 Tis I'll be here in sunshine, all new shadow 98 00:13:17.800 --> 00:13:30.520 Oh jelly boy, oh jelly boy, I love you so 99 00:13:31.520 --> 00:13:42.860 But when ye come, and all the flowers are dying 100 00:13:43.520 --> 00:13:51.760 If I am dead, as dead I will be 101 00:13:54.640 --> 00:14:03.760 You'll come and find the spot where I am lying 102 00:14:04.800 --> 00:14:14.960 And kneel and slay, but now they're there for me 103 00:14:15.960 --> 00:14:26.960 But I shall hear those soft and red abound me 104 00:14:28.220 --> 00:14:37.960 And on my grave will warmers sweeten me 105 00:14:39.800 --> 00:14:54.980 Why you will dance and tell me that you love us of grief 106 00:14:55.360 --> 00:15:13.120 And I shall sleep in peace until you come to me 107 00:15:31.240 --> 00:15:39.360 You're a war, it's bound to be a dream one 108 00:15:40.080 --> 00:15:47.360 When all the things we've come from the sea 109 00:15:49.750 --> 00:15:58.070 Especially when it happens, peace and exile 110 00:15:58.710 --> 00:16:07.190 From that below, the Isle of Inis Free 111 00:16:07.190 --> 00:16:18.890 And when the moon, like peaches, rocks like hope, that's in Isle of Inis Free 112 00:16:18.890 --> 00:16:23.930 I wonder all we live in 113 00:16:46.210 --> 00:16:51.230 In the year of our Lord, eighteen hundred and six 114 00:16:51.230 --> 00:16:55.310 Who set sail from the cold, chaos, and upcountry 115 00:16:55.310 --> 00:16:58.990 We were sailing away with the cannonball 116 00:17:02.730 --> 00:17:09.110 And she stood several blasts, and they called her the Irish Brawler 117 00:17:09.990 --> 00:17:18.030 And there was Ballybiggy from the banks of the Lein, there was Hoggett from the Hill, there was Dracassero 118 00:17:18.030 --> 00:17:24.070 And fighting for Tracy from the Over, and your man Mick McCann 119 00:17:24.070 --> 00:17:30.510 From the banks of the Bann, was the skipper on the Irish Brawler 120 00:17:31.070 --> 00:17:38.270 And we had one million dimes of the best slag or rags, we had two million barrels of bomb 121 00:17:39.070 --> 00:17:46.350 And we had three million fails on an eagle's tail, we had four million barrels of stone 122 00:17:46.350 --> 00:17:54.350 And we had five million hugs, and six million dogs, and seven million barrels of porter 123 00:17:54.990 --> 00:18:03.350 We had eight million sights of our blind horses like the whole of the Irish Brawler 124 00:18:03.870 --> 00:18:14.310 And we had sailed seven years when the visas broke up, and the ship lost her way in a fork, right far in the whale of the crew 125 00:18:14.310 --> 00:18:19.450 And the man who was the loose bound to two was Mesa and the captain's old dog 126 00:18:20.310 --> 00:18:28.730 And when the ship struck a rock, oh Lord what a shock, and here they tumbled over 127 00:18:29.310 --> 00:18:36.750 She turned nine times around, and the poor old dog was drowned 128 00:18:37.810 --> 00:18:44.750 I'm the last of the Irish Brawler 129 00:18:52.510 --> 00:19:01.050 Now there's a little story, go back to Ireland, this whole continent, and Ireland 130 00:19:01.050 --> 00:19:09.130 Mary and Pat Kelly, Mary's husband Pat died 131 00:19:10.050 --> 00:19:20.050 And every time she'd meet the priest, she would tell him to say a mass for my husband Pat 132 00:19:20.610 --> 00:19:30.970 Well this went on for weeks and months, and every time she'd meet the priest she'd give him a pound 133 00:19:31.610 --> 00:19:41.450 So the pounds all ran out, and she met the priest this day, and she was going to be very brief 134 00:19:41.450 --> 00:19:48.670 And she said, I want to know if Pat is in the road of heaven 135 00:19:48.670 --> 00:19:58.210 Well I'll tell you Mary, he said, Pat had his head in 136 00:19:58.210 --> 00:20:06.350 Well if I know Pat's the chief, whenever he get his head in, he'll get his ass in 137 00:20:08.430 --> 00:20:16.750 So that's what we want to do here on a late today, we're going to get Brian's ass in 138 00:20:19.470 --> 00:20:20.950 How are you doing, everybody? 139 00:20:23.230 --> 00:20:23.710 Applause 140 00:20:40.450 --> 00:20:43.330 I've got a lot of endorsements, but never one like that 141 00:20:43.330 --> 00:20:45.990 Is that a good thing or a bad thing? 142 00:20:46.930 --> 00:20:47.550 That's good 143 00:20:51.170 --> 00:20:52.090 That's a good one 144 00:20:52.090 --> 00:20:55.530 Yes, yes, yes 145 00:20:55.530 --> 00:20:57.230 Goddamn he's got a good memory 146 00:21:01.350 --> 00:21:01.790 Excellent 147 00:21:01.790 --> 00:21:09.690 On election night they had the cameras on, and I'm making my stuff and speech, excusing the back with the sleigh-ly screaming 148 00:21:11.270 --> 00:21:14.150 They're trying to keep getting on the picture as they keep jumping back and forth 149 00:21:14.150 --> 00:21:16.950 You know what, they should have brought him in on this one 150 00:21:17.710 --> 00:21:24.010 Well if he's with you, he wouldn't have been arrested, he would have made his day 151 00:21:25.270 --> 00:21:26.130 He's lost that 152 00:21:26.550 --> 00:21:29.090 He has something to talk about for another month 153 00:21:29.090 --> 00:21:32.450 He is a cracker on the case, he is one of a kind, you know that? 154 00:21:32.970 --> 00:21:34.890 He is a one of a kind 155 00:21:35.770 --> 00:21:36.750 Hands your back 156 00:21:38.970 --> 00:21:40.810 Come on Tommy 157 00:21:42.650 --> 00:21:44.550 Well, the original one 158 00:21:45.150 --> 00:21:46.810 They're not too far behind him 159 00:21:48.010 --> 00:21:49.810 Are they going to run this? 160 00:21:51.170 --> 00:21:52.150 I think so 161 00:21:52.930 --> 00:21:55.170 They're talking in a few months or so 162 00:21:58.010 --> 00:22:00.210 We'll probably end up in the cutting room tomorrow 163 00:22:00.810 --> 00:22:01.950 It's all good parties 164 00:22:04.530 --> 00:22:05.610 Number one 165 00:22:05.610 --> 00:22:07.190 Billy has been all day 166 00:22:07.190 --> 00:22:10.570 He was all worried about this, this is a big deal 167 00:22:10.570 --> 00:22:12.430 Well it turned out pretty well 168 00:22:13.990 --> 00:22:15.650 We haven't done any fights yet 169 00:22:15.650 --> 00:22:18.590 The night's early 170 00:22:23.810 --> 00:22:26.670 Where else would we go and fight the brain doctor? 171 00:22:38.910 --> 00:22:40.470 Oh yeah? 172 00:22:41.630 --> 00:22:41.630 173 00:22:41.630 --> 00:22:42.850 We're doing the documentary 174 00:22:44.350 --> 00:22:45.910 Hey Johnny 175 00:22:45.910 --> 00:22:47.730 Hey Johnny, taking your picture 176 00:22:50.370 --> 00:22:53.970 This is Johnny, my godson, Johnny Asborn 177 00:22:53.970 --> 00:22:55.070 Say hi, Johnny 178 00:22:55.070 --> 00:22:58.470 How old are you? 179 00:22:59.250 --> 00:23:01.450 Three years old 180 00:23:01.450 --> 00:23:03.550 I wish I was three 181 00:23:03.550 --> 00:23:05.270 Is your name Dorothy? 182 00:23:06.150 --> 00:23:06.950 No 183 00:23:06.950 --> 00:23:08.230 What's your name? 184 00:23:10.330 --> 00:23:10.730 Asborn 185 00:23:10.730 --> 00:23:13.510 Where's your sister at? 186 00:23:14.050 --> 00:23:14.850 Yeah 187 00:23:15.690 --> 00:23:17.390 Did you like the music? 188 00:23:18.730 --> 00:23:19.670 That's Colleen 189 00:23:20.630 --> 00:23:22.710 That's your grandma over there 190 00:23:23.590 --> 00:23:24.970 Where's your grandma? 191 00:23:27.050 --> 00:23:27.670 You like grandma? 192 00:23:31.450 --> 00:23:31.910 I like her 193 00:23:33.390 --> 00:23:35.450 Who do you think thought me out of tune? 194 00:23:37.070 --> 00:23:38.910 She must have thought you 195 00:23:38.910 --> 00:23:39.710 You'd play off the bottom 196 00:23:41.850 --> 00:23:44.590 Better get the grandmother here too 197 00:23:44.590 --> 00:23:45.970 Yeah, the mother and the grandmother 198 00:23:48.130 --> 00:23:50.150 You go back every year, don't you? 199 00:23:50.990 --> 00:23:53.170 I was back once at 44 years 200 00:23:54.750 --> 00:23:56.490 There's one guy and he said 201 00:23:57.870 --> 00:24:00.130 Your wife goes back to Ireland every summer 202 00:24:00.130 --> 00:24:02.570 Yeah, and it cost me $10,000 a year 203 00:24:03.130 --> 00:24:05.130 It's the best damn investment I ever made 204 00:24:07.330 --> 00:24:09.530 I left Ireland 44 years ago 205 00:24:09.530 --> 00:24:11.850 And it was raining, I went back 20 years after 206 00:24:11.850 --> 00:24:12.910 It was still raining 207 00:24:12.910 --> 00:24:15.950 I left two years ahead of you, right? 208 00:24:16.590 --> 00:24:17.630 Before me 209 00:24:19.050 --> 00:24:20.750 You came here what year? 210 00:24:22.130 --> 00:24:22.650 1951 211 00:24:24.390 --> 00:24:28.610 I landed in New York on Valentine's Day 212 00:24:28.610 --> 00:24:29.830 It was pouring rain 213 00:24:30.510 --> 00:24:32.130 It was pouring rain when I landed 214 00:24:32.130 --> 00:24:35.710 That was the 6th of July 215 00:24:35.710 --> 00:24:39.070 The 4th of July we had in the middle of the Atlantic 216 00:24:40.270 --> 00:24:42.310 All this champagne and all these drinks 217 00:24:42.310 --> 00:24:43.310 You didn't know what it was about? 218 00:24:44.650 --> 00:24:47.890 Well I had an idea because I used to hear my father and him talk about it 219 00:24:47.890 --> 00:24:49.770 Because they were in this country for years too 220 00:25:01.090 --> 00:25:01.670 I'm going to tell them my son is here 221 00:25:01.670 --> 00:25:03.530 My guide likes to go to my house 222 00:25:03.530 --> 00:25:04.790 He came out my son and he was like 223 00:25:04.790 --> 00:25:07.130 I need more 224 00:25:08.590 --> 00:25:11.050 I'm going to tell them I'm running for Junior 225 00:25:11.050 --> 00:25:14.270 I'm going to tell them my son is here 226 00:25:14.270 --> 00:25:16.590 I'm going to tell them my son is here 227 00:25:16.590 --> 00:25:17.410 I see him 228 00:25:17.410 --> 00:25:20.630 I'm going to tell them my son is here 229 00:25:22.690 --> 00:25:24.410 I'm going to tell them my son is here 230 00:25:24.410 --> 00:25:27.010 I'm going to tell them my son is here 231 00:25:28.610 --> 00:25:33.350 I'm going to tell them my son is here 232 00:25:33.350 --> 00:25:35.970 What's going on? 233 00:25:41.150 --> 00:25:43.310 Why are these people doing this? 234 00:25:44.430 --> 00:25:45.490 Don't you guys get tired? 235 00:25:47.130 --> 00:25:48.350 Good luck, Brian 236 00:25:59.230 --> 00:26:00.830 Say a couple of words, Friday. 237 00:26:05.910 --> 00:26:06.810 How about stomach cramps? 238 00:26:10.730 --> 00:26:12.610 I want to be politically correct. 239 00:26:28.610 --> 00:26:42.210 I want to be politically correct. 240 00:26:42.210 --> 00:26:44.470 Are you going to drink it? 241 00:26:58.610 --> 00:27:03.350 I want to be politically correct. 242 00:27:03.350 --> 00:27:07.250 I want to be politically correct. 243 00:27:07.250 --> 00:27:11.730 I want to be politically correct. 244 00:27:12.870 --> 00:27:17.930 I want to be politically correct. 245 00:27:17.930 --> 00:27:21.270 I want to be politically correct. 246 00:27:21.270 --> 00:27:23.610 I want to be politically correct. 247 00:27:28.610 --> 00:27:36.290 I want to be politically correct. 248 00:27:36.290 --> 00:27:36.290 249 00:27:36.290 --> 00:27:37.490 I want to be politically correct. 250 00:27:37.490 --> 00:27:44.410 I want to be politically correct. 251 00:27:44.410 --> 00:27:51.270 I want to be politically correct. 252 00:27:51.270 --> 00:27:58.690 I want to be politically correct. 253 00:27:58.690 --> 00:28:00.110 I want to be politically correct. 254 00:28:03.530 --> 00:28:07.330 Thank you very much. 255 00:28:22.110 --> 00:28:23.830 Thank you.