Episode 259.5: The City
Jim Cornette Experience
Arcadian Vanguard
4.6 • 4.4K Ratings
🗓️ 23 November 2018
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
The City tells true stories of how power works in urban America. Season 1 begins in Chicago, 1990.
After years of disinvestment, highways are rebuilt, old buildings demolished, and new skyscrapers erected. All that rubble has to go somewhere, and its destination isn’t a landfill—it’s a pair of vacant lots in a predominately black, working-class neighborhood called North Lawndale. The man behind this operation is a white guy sporting a Cosby sweater and underworld connections. What follows is a tour de force through Chicago’s underbelly: Aldermen get indicted. An FBI investigation goes awry. A community’s resilience is tested—all unfolding under the specter of racism in America.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello again, everybody, and welcome to a very special edition of the Jim Cornett Experience. |
| 0:21.7 | Of course, we say that every time, but this time it's really one of those special editions, |
| 0:26.3 | where we bring your attention to something that you need to know about in the world and |
| 0:31.3 | to join me with this once again, I'm still going to give you the intro, even for the |
| 0:35.3 | shorter show. |
| 0:36.3 | He's Hawaiian Brian, the podcasting lion, the king of the Arcadian Vanguard podcast network, |
| 0:41.0 | Mr. Co-host to you, the swammy's papi, the post office playboy, Suzy's favorite boy, |
| 0:47.0 | the proprietor of the French toast chapeau, well, you say tomato and I say fuck you. |
| 0:56.3 | He's gentleman. |
| 0:57.3 | He's the great Brian Lass. |
| 0:58.3 | Although, how did you make pleasure to be here once again for a special show? |
| 1:01.1 | And I know we have a very cool thing we're going to tell the listeners about. |
| 1:04.5 | Well, and we've been cranking him out over the holiday time here because of course we had |
| 1:08.3 | a special Thanksgiving edition of the experience. |
| 1:10.7 | We're going to do a Thanksgiving weekend and prior previous week edition of the drive-through |
| 1:15.8 | and we have another special edition of the experience here to call attention to another |
| 1:20.6 | podcast from our friends over at Wundery and from USA Today on this one. |
| 1:26.2 | The premise of this program, which is called the city and I've listened to some of this |
| 1:31.7 | stuff and I've read the information on it. |
| 1:34.4 | There's an investigative journalist, Robin Amher, that reports on various things such |
| 1:40.4 | as this and this is and it's amazing they can make an interesting podcast out of a dump. |
| 1:45.5 | But that's exactly what you did as Betty Davis would say, Vata dump. |
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