A warning, there's some foul language in this episode and references to mature themes.

Yeah, I am.

Well, I'm going to do something over here.

Oh, okay, okay. I didn't want to.

Nah, not.

At the moment, I'm nervous, but pretending not to be.

I'm about 100 feet away from a pair of police cruisers parked at the nearby

CTA train entrance in Logan Square. And I'm a body length away from someone who's in the

middle of committing an illegal act. And I don't want to do anything that would draw attention

to him. He's a graffiti artist or street artist, and this is his world.

Let's see if I can, like, make him artist, and this is his world.

Let's see if I can, like, make them look, uh, cool.

Yeah.

And he's done this kind of thing countless times.

I'm producer Joe Dissau.

This week, we're answering a question sent to us by Judy Glazer.

Lately, I've been noticing these painted designs on electrical boxes around town.

I see them all over Chicago and in all neighborhoods.

At first, she thought these spray-painted minimalist designs were just some kind of doodle.

Some look like little tornadoes and others just like a splotch, and I'm curious who's doing it.

It's this guy I'm with, Juice, which is his gnome to plume, or Nome to Spray Can, as it were,

which you can see splayed across walls, subway cars, and electrical boxes across the city.

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