You Don't Say...
Drew Zagorski
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Stories from the Drew Zagorski Files - Some stories are just worth telling... In You Don't Say, you'll get a mix of documentary, commentary, history - straight and sometimes with a twist, and well, just great stories - single episode and serial stories to help you escape the real world. There's a little something here for everyone. You Don't Say... (youdontsay.net) is a production of LeftBrainRightBrain Marketing (lbrbm.com).
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The Make-Right Man: A Chicago Reckoning - Billy And Karp Finally Get The Uninterrupted Cut
Send us feedback!A story can live in your head for decades, but once it hits the page, it starts demanding a bigger life. That’s where we are with The Make-Right Man: what started as a serialized…
Ep. 7 - The Monte Carlo
Send us feedback!A red Monte Carlo noses down Blue Island Avenue and Billy knows there’s no version of tomorrow where he walks away the same. Memory hits first—Sunday sauce, laughter stretched thin,…
Ep. 6 - Blood and Smoke - Sunday Dinner - Lines and Dirt
Send us feedback!The night smells like wood smoke and wet asphalt as Billy’s ledger finally speaks out loud. We open on the South Side—clean hits, quiet exits, and a cardiganed capo named Frank…
Ep. 5 - The Line Between Worlds - Present Tense
Send us feedback!A quiet envelope lands on a dorm desk and sets off a chain reaction that stretches from Milwaukee hallways to South Side bars. With Ellen unraveling and Janey holding things…
Ep. 4 - The Girl from Donovan Park - Janey's World
Send us feedback!A porch light flickers, a kiss lands, and a kid wired for payback has to choose which voice to follow—the one that wants the last hit, or the one that says drop the pipe. This…
Ep. 3 - The Business of Payback - Tough as Rebar
Send us feedback!Summer hums along in Bridgeport until a torn pharmacy bag and the clang of a garbage can lid redraw the map. We find Billy at Morrie's, tracing the line from Rusty’s hard lesson to…
Ep. 2 - The Switch - Rusty’s Lesson
Send us feedback!Some legends shout; this one learns to whisper. We walk Bridgeport with Billy, a kid handed a nickname meant to break him, and watch him turn it into cover, leverage, and eventually…
Ep. 1 - Billy Shitpants Lives – 7 Mouths, 16 Legs – and The Making of Billy Shitpants
Send us feedback!Larry Karpinski, Karp, comes back to Bridgeport telling himself he’s just passing through, maybe closing a loop. That’s the lie guys use when they don’t want to admit they miss a…
Coming Soon – The Make Right Man – The Legend of Billy Shitpants
Send us feedback!Some names you only say when the easy answers run out. The Make Right Man is a serialized story set in Chicago’s Bridgeport, where the streets remember, the bars keep score, and one…
The Totally True Story of The Orchid of Solza, 3-Ball Bartolomeo Colleoni
Send us feedback!In thinking through which classic to watch this holiday season, I landed on the Mario Puzo - Francis Ford Coppola masterpiece, The Godfather. That got me wondering about Corleone,…
The Totally True Story of the First Successful Parachute Jump… or Push
Send us feedback!I got to thinking about who was the first person to jump from a ledge or flying machine using a parachute. I mean, who invented the first parachute, when was that, what were the…
True Facts #5 – The Invention of the Hamburger and the Founding of McDonald's
Send us feedback!Who doesn't love a big juicy burger? But where did this glorious gastronomic culinary creation come from? Who invented it and how did they dream it up? And what about that go-to…
The Totally True Story of How Thanksgiving Came to Be
Send us feedback!There's a lot that's been uncovered about the first Thanksgiving. Based on the research of Dr. Louis Pazgassian, a professor of Colonial North American and U.S. History and chair of…
The Totally True Story of the Super Villain, Blofeld, from the James Bond Franchise
Send us feedback!Super heroes are great, but it's the super villains who make those stories so compelling. Thinking about super villains brought me to the James Bond franchise from Ian Fleming, and…
The Totally True Story of the Roswell Incident Aliens, Based on Real Facts
Send us feedback!Back in 1947 in Roswell, New Mexico, a flying saucer crash landed in the desert. The Air Force secured the spacecraft as well as a handful of surviving aliens, including a petulant…
The Totally True Story of the Bubbly Creek and a Guy Named Jeff Chłapowski, Based on Real Facts
Send us feedback!We're introducing a new series for You Don't Say... It's called Totally True Facts. One of the things that alternate facts have caused is a whole lot of unnecessary violence, strife…
Better Terms for All : Term Limits and Aging Out
Send us feedback!All we need to do is to turn on the news and we see stories of septuagenarian and octogenarian politicians and judges whose time is well past. It’s like opening a dumpster and…
Ep. 60 - Tuesday, September 11 - It Started Like Any Other Day
Send us feedback!I woke up, went off to the gym, then to work, like any other day. I imagine for a lady named Valsa Raju out in Yonkers, New York, her day started in an ordinary way. September 11,…
Ep. 59 - Burnin' Down the House
Send us feedback!When fire strikes, here's what you need to know...My sister, Amy Wagner, lost her family home of nearly 30 years to a fire in the spring of 2020. She's sharing her story of loss,…
Ep. 58 - The Baseball Hall of Fame v. The Football Hall of Fame
Send us feedback!I recently visited both The National Baseball Hall of Fame and The Pro Football Hall of Fame. The difference in the feel of them was like going to a family reunion versus a corporate…
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