Growing Up Poor in Irish Boston

This episode agonizes over my mostly unhappy high school days.

Ep. 43 Little Roddy Discovers Glenn Miller is a story of a my teen years and finding the last vestiges of another type of popular music and an older woman.

This Ep. 46 Eugenics & the Fernald School is my judgement on America's overlords. Many of our politicians, our intelligencia, our doctors, judges, our religious leaders, our media owners and our writers are amoral or evil. What those "enlightened" people did to handicapped children in the last century calls for their being sentenced to capital punishment.  

Ep. 19 Dog Bites Boy is a true story about why you should not tease a German Shepherd.

This Episode, “Boys Camp & Malice”presents my opinion, gathered from decades of dashed expectations, that the people running most things are both incompetent and often malicious. This 8 year old boy’s story was the beginning of my unsentimental and hard-headed realization that the world cares not.

This Episode, “Nothing Fits” perhaps allows listeners, whose youthful economic situation was better than mine, to see the small things that poverty brings also.

This Episode displays, strictly raised Catholic kids of my youth, ignoring such Commandments as, "Thou Should Not Steal". The kids' ability to be only concerned with the can-I-get-away-with-it aspects and not the morality of a situation is universal, unfortunately.

These two Episodes, Boston & Cambridge Geography A & B, describe 1950's Boston and Cambridge, its ethnic makeup, its subways, buses, trollies, etc., and how my family lived, had fun, learned and worked here. 

These two Episodes, Boston & Cambridge Geography A & B, describe 1950's Boston and Cambridge, its ethnic makeup, its subways, buses, trollies, etc., and how my family lived, had fun, learned and worked here. 

This is the introductory episode of my story of my family, the Murphys, living on the financial edge in Cambridge and Boston during the last half of the last century. It is a happy story with some pathos.

This Episode portrays the love and thoughtful guidance of my older brother and my family for me, as an extremely  curious and alive 10 year old boy. It also lets the listener/viewer observe the real world awareness of the Murphys in the unjust world that we lived in and which still exists.

This episode describes the ancestral and the makeup of Murphys and the Milans, my family .

FER FECK'S SAKE.

I'M NOT YELLING...

I'M IRISH. WE JUST LIVE LOUD!

This Episode gives a glimpse of a poor kid, me, beginning to be an entrepreneur.

What nicknames do my listeners remember during their youth? I think imagination and IQ is shrinking in today’s youth.