How do you measure a man's legacy? You look at his kids, you look at his wife, you look at the family, you go to his funeral, and see how he's

embraced by those who love him.

And you go through his life and see who loved him and how they loved him.

We all sat down the other day to talk about this, about legacy, about my father, about the Polykotti project, on the Chicago

Way podcast on WGM Plus.

And the thing that I come away with is the old world and the new world.

He loved this new world, this new world of America. He loved the people of America. He embraced the diversity.

But that was the new world and the new world.

And the new world we forget everything.

We forget everything.

But in the old world,

where honor and shame rule, they remember everything. They tell stories around

the tables just like this one. They pour coffee. They talk about the mule that fell in the well or the moor the moor the mottie the evil eye. How do you get rid of the evil eye? These are the stories of legacies that I grew up with. This is the Polykotti project. This is my father's story in his own words, produced by Jeff

Carlin part of the Chicago Way Podcast on WGM Plus.

I'll ask you one thing before you close it up.

Yeah.

When you went back, we went back to Greece after 29 years and you went to see that Ma.

Can you just tell that story?

Yeah, I was.

I was there in United States from 1951 and we decide to take the family and take them to Greece to see my hometown, my family

in 1979 we were back. That was about 28 years, right, 28 years.

And... right? And I took the family to Athens and we went to show them how I went to show them how I went to the palace,

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