I want you to think about a young man, a black kid from Chicago, from the south side, from some of the toughest neighborhoods most dangerous listed in media, most dangerous neighborhoods in the world,

Angalwood, Roseland.

His name is Brian Altheimer.

He joined the Marines rather than join the gangs and for years after he and Jeff Carlin, my buddy here at the Chicago way, were co-producers and working together as producers,

Brian joins us today to talk about what he sees

is happening to Chicago, what he sees

about public transportation in the schools and the vote.

And he joins Jeff Carlin and me on the Chicago Way podcast today. And where are you? And where are you? As Joe Biden wins his

non-competitive primary and says his blah blah blah and Chicago trembles as it gets ready for the Democratic

National Convention which you're sure is going to work out without any

incident and embarrassment for the city. You're on the Chicago

way podcast on WGM Plus.

So this is a guy who lives high on the hog and he has this Tammany Hall style attitude to power and it is it's

the Chicago way absolutely. The Chicago Way is a deep cultural phenomenon.

It's the Chicago Way.

The Chicago Way, that's the focus.

In a tower by the river, there lived a man.

There was a man who took a stand,

with pen and paper in his hand, defeating foes in every ward with a pen more mighty than the sword.

No escape from his ink lasso, in a tower by the river, Castle.

He's how you get him.

He pulls a knife, you pull a gun, he sends one of yours to the hospital, you say,

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