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🗓️ 22 February 2024
⏱️ 25 minutes
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0:00.0 | A warning, there's some foul language in this episode and references to mature themes. |
0:07.6 | Yeah, I am. |
0:10.3 | Well, I'm going to do something over here. |
0:11.8 | Oh, okay, okay. I didn't want to. |
0:13.5 | Nah, not. |
0:14.1 | At the moment, I'm nervous, but pretending not to be. |
0:17.6 | I'm about 100 feet away from a pair of police cruisers parked at the nearby |
0:21.4 | CTA train entrance in Logan Square. And I'm a body length away from someone who's in the |
0:27.2 | middle of committing an illegal act. And I don't want to do anything that would draw attention |
0:32.2 | to him. He's a graffiti artist or street artist, and this is his world. |
0:37.4 | Let's see if I can, like, make him artist, and this is his world. |
0:40.5 | Let's see if I can, like, make them look, uh, cool. |
0:41.1 | Yeah. |
0:44.1 | And he's done this kind of thing countless times. |
0:46.3 | I'm producer Joe Dissau. |
0:50.1 | This week, we're answering a question sent to us by Judy Glazer. |
0:54.8 | Lately, I've been noticing these painted designs on electrical boxes around town. |
0:59.5 | I see them all over Chicago and in all neighborhoods. |
1:04.8 | At first, she thought these spray-painted minimalist designs were just some kind of doodle. |
1:10.5 | Some look like little tornadoes and others just like a splotch, and I'm curious who's doing it. |
1:17.1 | It's this guy I'm with, Juice, which is his gnome to plume, or Nome to Spray Can, as it were, |
1:22.5 | which you can see splayed across walls, subway cars, and electrical boxes across the city. |
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