Ep. 2 - The Make Right Man – The Legend of Billy Shitpants
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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 a code. What matters isn’t the punch—it’s the pause after: timing, restraint, and the price of making things right without making a scene. At home and in school, pressure teaches cadence as much as consequence, and a small, almost-forgotten library incident becomes the first entry in a ledger that values clean outcomes over noise. Problems end quietly. The room resets. A reputation takes shape.
Then it deepens. A summer away, a woman who understands limits, and a cat that can’t help being a cat introduce the rule that governs everything after: instinct needs mercy, and power needs aim. That lesson echoes through games, hallways, and side-street conversations with men who don’t smile much. Favors turn into currency, and the neighborhood adjusts to having a quiet custodian of balance. Not a hero. Not a bully. Just someone who knows how to end a problem before it becomes a headline—and knows there’s always a ceiling waiting.
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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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