Growing Up Poor in Irish Boston
"Growing Up Poor in Irish Boston” is a podcast series, colored with humor, nostalgia and pathos. It’s about a Boston tenement kid, born in 1939, clawing his way out of poverty by being hard-working, creative, persistent, entrepreneurial and by taking risks often. There are also stories of my later life in Boston, Cambridge and New England. If you like old Boston stories or Irish-American stories or old Cambridge stories, this is your podcast. If you like Pull-Yourself-Up-By-The-Bootstrap type stories and/or down-to-earth philosophy with a Roman Catholic, funny and relatively conservative slant, then this is for you. I am Roderick Patrick Murphy, born into a large, loving Irish family in Boston, widowed after 50+ happy years. So I am now doing a lot of writing and I am a bachelor. There are still a few over 60, unencumbered, local ladies that I haven’t dated but I’m working on it.
Episodes
Ep.26A Do We Have A Choice? This is a true story in two parts about many Laotian refugees brought to Southbridge by my wife and I from Thailand Refugeee Camps after the Vietnam War.
Ep. 5B Do We Have A Choice? This is a true story in two parts about many Laotian refugees brought to Southbridge by my wife and I from Thailand Refugeee Camps after the Vietnam War.
Ep. 4 Growing Up, Unwashed is a colorful description of where and how my large, unprivileged family lived in the 1950s Metropolitan Boston and thrived despite the financal hardships.
Ep. 25 1940-50s Radio & TV talks about that era, popular radio shows and later how the Murphys got their first television set.
Ep. 61B Fort Jackson & Cops. This episode continues my peasetime Army experiences in the Jim Crow South.
Ep. 61C US Army Mess Hall Follies & Myrtle Beach. This episode continues to tell some anecdotes of my peacetime military experiences.
Ep. 61A Army Basic Training Stories. Little Roddy becomes a soldier.
Ep.18 Speaker Tip O'Neil & My College Expulsion spells out how my entrepreneurial actions caused my college expulsion. It also shows why we need political connections.
Ep. 42 From Dungarees to Blue Jeans makes a case for disrupting the American descent into almost 100% indistinguishability from each other.
Ep. 10 Dollars Fall with the Snow discusses making money shoveling snow in the wealthy neighborhoods.
Ep. 11 My New Years Eve in Times Square, tells the story of my determination to be in Times Sq. on New Years Eve. I did it at 14 years old!
Ep. 15 Rosie the Riveter tells the story of World War 2 housewives stepping up to take factory jobs making munitions, etc.
Ep.32A Dad's Failed Fire Extinguisher Business portrays my father's side gig attempts to fatten up the family income.
Ep.14A Jesus Coming through the Roof talks about my juvenile delinquent friends & I harassing a Black Church service. It's funny but it was not very nice.
Ep. 59 Boston Mayors & the Murphys relates experiences by Murphy family members with Boston mayors.
Ep. 47 My Roxbury Real Estate Office tells of my young man's experience as a real estate broker in Roxbury.
Ep. 37 Flyfishing in the Slums is a description of fishing in Boston's urban Charles River and my 10 year old attempts at flyfishing.
Ep. 33 Uncle Clarence's Haunted House portrays our family's summer vacations and my mother's old Yankee farmer's kinds haunted house.
Ep. 27 Outdoor Confession in Boston's Combat Zone talks about the RC Sacrament of Penance and how my generation of Catholics understood their Faith.
Ep. 66 Christmas at the Murphys in the 1950s describes the warm and loving Murphy family in the 1950s at Christmas.
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