The marketplace of ideas, whether it was thousands of years ago in Athens or now in Chicago

and throughout the United States where people exchange their views and we don't cancel

them for things we disagree with.

That's what I believe in and that's what Jeff Carlin believes in here at the Chicago

Way podcast and at JohnCastnews.com.

The marketplace of ideas and one guy who's got some ideas and I think pretty interesting

ones but I don't know whether he'll ever be able to put them in practice is Paul Vellis,

my friend, commentator and possible future candidate for mayor.

He joins us today along with Jeff Carlin as always, executive producer at WGN Radio,

lover of cats, baker of pies and me, JohnCast, you see my handsome face on the billboards

or around Chicago, yeah, I'm looking at you at JohnCastnews.com and where are you with

people voting with their feet in Chicago, with candidates piling in to run for office,

not even being able to balance their checkbox, you're on the Chicago Way podcast on WGN Plus.

Look that the Chicago Way is a deep cultural phenomenon, it's the Chicago Way in a tower

by the river, there lived a man, there was a man who took a stand, with pen and paper

in his hand, defeating foes in every ward with a pen more mighty than the sword, no escape

from his ink class O, in a tower by the river, castle, here's how you get him, he pulls a knife,

you pull a gun, he sends one of yours to the hospital, you send one of his to the mall,

that's the shrapnel way.

As promised, Paul Vellis on the Chicago Way, with JohnCast and Jeff Carlin Paul, first

of all, there was one Easter this Sunday, another Easter next Sunday, where are you taking

your mom for roast lamb?

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