This series contains adult language and depictions of graphic violence.

Listener discretion is advised. It comes down to reality and it's fine with me because I've let it slide.

Don't care if it's true.

It comes down to reality and it's fine with me because I've let it slide.

Don't care if it's Chinatown or up on Riverside.

I don't have any reasons. I've left them all behind.

I'm in a New York state of mind.

There are times in our history where circumstances conspire to deliver to the masses great and enduring acts of human achievement.

Think of Abraham Lincoln.

He was the right man at the right time, surrounded by a team that challenged and supported him

in the great and bloody arena of the American Civil War. He was able to navigate a fractured nation through those darkest of times into the

light of a limitless American future.

Or the great artist Michelangelo Bonerati, a singular talent, a creative genius, tortured

by his own religious convictions, yet supported by the never-ending patronage of the Church of Rome.

His arena was nothing less than the Renaissance, and he stood at the leading edge of artistic immortality.

The right person in the right environment

has proven throughout history

to be the secret sauce when it comes to human achievement.

But there's an opposing side to that coin,

a dark and sinister side, that while terrifying and grotesque is no less true.

A gruesome story leads off our newscast.

Milwaukee police found body parts in a north side apartment and now they wonder if they've uncovered some kind of death factory.

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