Coming Soon – The Make Right Man – The Legend of Billy Shitpants

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Dec 16

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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 nickname became the neighborhood’s quiet alarm bell. Larry “Karp” Karpinski comes home with his life thinning out at the edges, telling himself it’s temporary. Bridgeport doesn’t do temporary. He's wondering about an old friend, Billy Szczepanek—Billy Shitpants—and if he's still carrying the same gravity he had when they were young, still standing where time left him.

This series traces how a legend forms and what it costs to wear it. Told through Karp’s reflective voice and Billy’s measured, watchful one, the story moves through kitchens, parks, and front rooms where truth finally sits because it’s run out of places to hide. This isn’t a clean crime story or a hero’s tale. It’s about friendship that stands the test of time, family that holds even when it hurts, a love so deep it survives the worst that life can throw at it, and a neighborhood that knows some problems don’t fix themselves. When Billy’s name gets whispered, the clock starts. Every favor counts. Bridgeport watches—because it always does.

Coming to your favorite podcast app, or right here at the You Don’t Say… website, late January/early February, 2026.

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The Make Right Man – The Legend of Billy Shitpants is written and produced by Drew Zagorski, published under the pen name Drew Glass.

This podcast is a production of LeftBrainRightBrain Marketing and is part of You Don’t Say… Stories from the Drew Zagorski Files.

All stories, characters, and events are works of fiction. Any resemblance to real people or actual events is coincidental—and probably exaggerated anyway.

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Coming Soon – The Make Right Man – The Legend of Billy Shitpants

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