{"id":16920,"date":"2019-10-27T12:37:52","date_gmt":"2019-10-27T17:37:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thebozho.com\/?p=16920"},"modified":"2019-11-04T10:19:32","modified_gmt":"2019-11-04T16:19:32","slug":"chance-the-rapper-saturday-night-live-isthmus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thebozho.com\/chance-the-rapper-saturday-night-live-isthmus\/","title":{"rendered":"Chance the Rapper asks on SNL: &#8220;What&#8217;s an isthmus?&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Chicago Teachers Union may be <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/2019\/10\/17\/20919027\/chicago-teachers-strike-deal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">on strike<\/a>, but native Chance the Rapper\u2019s <em>Saturday Night Live <\/em>appearance yesterday included an important geography lesson \u2014 with a Madison connection.<\/p>\n<p>As you may know, Chancelor Bennett is from the Windy City. (Listen to any of his songs for 10 seconds and it\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/entertainment.theonion.com\/chance-the-rapper-clarifies-he-from-chicago-1827721272\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pretty easy to figure out<\/a>.) But Chicago is also famously nicknamed \u201cThe Second City,\u201d so for his monologue, Chance The Rapper The Host rattled off a bunch of his favorite second-best things. Like his apparent preference for Pepsi, Burger King\u2019s fries, and the <em>Percy Jackson <\/em>film series, for example.<span class=\"\" style=\"display:block;clear:both;height: 0px;padding-top: 5px;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;\"><\/span>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Chance the Rapper Monologue - SNL\" width=\"689\" height=\"388\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Sehguubmp64?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<span class=\"\" style=\"display:block;clear:both;height: 0px;padding-top: 10px;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;\"><\/span>Halfway through the segment, <em>SNL <\/em>cast member Kyle Mooney joined in to declare, among other things, \u201cI don\u2019t like islands, but I love isthmuses.\u201d But even a talented wordsmith like Chance was left wondering what an isthmus is. \u201cIt\u2019s a narrow strip of land connecting two bigger pieces of land,\u201d Mooney replied.<\/p>\n<p>We know that, of course. Madison is on an isthmus. We love our isthmus. But apparently the world at large did not pay attention in class, as <a href=\"https:\/\/trends.google.com\/trends\/explore?date=now%201-d&amp;geo=US&amp;q=isthmus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Google searches for \u201cisthmus\u201d<\/a> spiked right around the time Chance and Mooney were rapping about it.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-16934 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thebozho.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/google-trends-isthmus-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Google Trends &quot;isthmus&quot;\" width=\"689\" height=\"460\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thebozho.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/google-trends-isthmus-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.thebozho.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/google-trends-isthmus-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thebozho.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/google-trends-isthmus-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.thebozho.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/google-trends-isthmus-720x480.jpg 720w, https:\/\/www.thebozho.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/google-trends-isthmus-750x500.jpg 750w, https:\/\/www.thebozho.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/google-trends-isthmus.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 689px) 100vw, 689px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It should be noted that the bit wasn\u2019t talking about Madison directly, just about isthmuses in general. And we\u2019re <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_isthmuses\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">far from the only isthmus<\/a> out there. But to paraphrase Mooney, for the purpose of this post we are the best.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Chicago Teachers Union may be on strike, but native Chance the Rapper\u2019s Saturday Night Live appearance yesterday included an important geography lesson \u2014 with a Madison connection. 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