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Growing Up Poor in Irish BostonGrowing Up Poor in Irish BostonEpisode 80 The Whole Murphy Family Goes to EuropeSend us a textEpisode 80 The Whole Murphy Family Goes to Europe  This episode relates the European vacation that the Murphys took to France and Ireland but mostly Ireland. We went to my grandparents' counties and towns. We also visited a lot of other. beatiful areas in my ancestral home.Support the show2025-07-1205 minGrowing Up Poor in Irish BostonGrowing Up Poor in Irish BostonEpisode 76 Stop Living a Life of Quiet DesperationSend us a textEpisode 76 Stop Living a Life of Quiet Desperation   This episode gives advice to a possible viewer/listerner who might hate his job and present life.It's possible to change. I use my relative financial success which started with very little, as an example.Support the show2025-07-1209 minGrowing Up Poor in Irish BostonGrowing Up Poor in Irish BostonEpisode 80 The Whole Murphy Family Goes to EuropeSend us a textEpisode 80 The Whole Murphy Family Goes to Europe  This episode relates the Murphys going to Ireland and France after getting a big unexpected business check. We went to our grandparents villages and much more.Support the show2025-07-1209 minGrowing Up Poor in Irish BostonGrowing Up Poor in Irish BostonEpisode 72 South Boston StoriesSend us a textEpisode 72 South Boston Stories. Being an Irish American in Boston made it impossible not be involved in many ways with South Boston or Southie, the Irish Heart of Boston. It was a love/hate kind of relationship for me.  Here's a few vignettes on Southie. Support the show2025-07-0109 minGrowing Up Poor in Irish BostonGrowing Up Poor in Irish BostonEp. 1B The Murphys, Tom & Helen's Kids.Send us a textEp. 1B The Murphys, Tom & Helen's Kids. This episode details the character building by my parents, Tom & Helen Murphy of their kids and how it has shown up in our lives.Support the show2025-06-3010 minGrowing Up Poor in Irish BostonGrowing Up Poor in Irish BostonEpisode 24 Murphy & Milan HeroesSend us a textEpisode 24 Murphy & Milan Heroes spells out in detail my family's military service contributions; Civil War, WW1, WW2, Korean War, etc. Support the show2025-06-2907 minGrowing Up Poor in Irish BostonGrowing Up Poor in Irish BostonEpisode 6 Catholic Newspaper DrivesSend us a textEpisode 6 Catholic Newspaper Drives. During and after World War 2, Roman Catholic parishes in Boston and elsewhere raised money by organizing Newspaper Drives. Parishioners and others would save their newspapers and magazines for donation and pickup for regular Church Newspaper Drives. Everyone read newspapers then. Kids were part of the pickup.Support the show2025-06-2203 minGrowing Up Poor in Irish BostonGrowing Up Poor in Irish BostonEp. 73 Not For PETA Types & Prohibition & Toy SoldiersSend us a textEp. 73 Not For PETA Types & Prohibition & Toy Soldiers. Four different vignettes, the Watertown Abbatoir, Chicken stealing. Prohibition and Toy Soldiers.Support the show2025-06-2007 minGrowing Up Poor in Irish BostonGrowing Up Poor in Irish BostonEp 9. My Father's Friend, Phil Gustafson Stories.Send us a textEp 9. My Father's Friend, Phil Gustafson Phil was a great friend of my father, Tom Murphy and some funny stories about Phil, the athiest and his contretemps with the very Catholic Murphys.Support the show2025-06-2007 minGrowing Up Poor in Irish BostonGrowing Up Poor in Irish BostonEp.13. Irish Spaghetti & Neighborhood AlcoholicsSend us a textEp. 13. Irish Spaghetti & Neighborhood Alcoholics. How not to make good spaghetti, Also a description of alcoholism in my 1950s neighborhood. Support the show2025-06-2008 minGrowing Up Poor in Irish BostonGrowing Up Poor in Irish BostonEpisode 57A My Journey From Salesman to EntrepreneurSend us a textEpisode 57A My Journey From Salesman to Entrepreneur lays out my history working as a salesman for the man interspered with many entrepreneurial startups, culminating with Degreasing Devices Co. finale.Support the show2025-06-1909 minGrowing Up Poor in Irish BostonGrowing Up Poor in Irish BostonEpisode 57B My Journey From Salesman to EntrepreneurSend us a textEpisode 57B My Journey From Salesman to Entrepreneur lays out my history working as a salesman for the man interspered with many entrepreneurial startups, culminating with Degreasing Devices Co. finale.Support the show2025-06-1911 minGrowing Up Poor in Irish BostonGrowing Up Poor in Irish BostonEpisode 20 Boston Kid Loose in ManhattanSend us a textEpisode 20 Boston Kid Loose in Manhattan describes my 11 year old adventures staying in Brooklyn with my brother and walking all over Manhattan and Brooklyn during a Christmas vacation.Support the show2025-06-1803 minGrowing Up Poor in Irish BostonGrowing Up Poor in Irish BostonEp. 71D Murphy's Comedy ClubSend us a textEp. 71D Murphy's Comedy Club provides another batch of Paddy Murphy jokes taking place in locations in Ireland and the the USA.Support the show2025-06-1406 minGrowing Up Poor in Irish BostonGrowing Up Poor in Irish BostonEp. 68B Covid & Keeping Up with the JonesSend us a textEp. 69 Covid & Keeping Up with the Jones. In this Episode you will find my criticism of today's mindlessness and conformity to government and media. I focus particularly on our compliant acceptance of the dictatorial goverment edicts and the sheepish compliance of Americans thereof, regarding the Covid disease.Support the show2025-06-1311 minGrowing Up Poor in Irish BostonGrowing Up Poor in Irish BostonEp. 69 Advice on Starting OverSend us a textEp. 69 Advice on Starting Over Ep. Some advice from someone who has started over more than once.Support the show2025-06-1207 minGrowing Up Poor in Irish BostonGrowing Up Poor in Irish BostonEp. 56 Second Hand Stuff, Sallies & The MorgieSend us a textEp. 56 Second Hand Stuff, Sallies & The Morgie. This episode details how my parents bought clothing, shoes, etc. for 7 kids on my Dad's meager income. Lots of detail on the 1940s and 50s Boston second hand stores.Support the show2025-06-1108 minGrowing Up Poor in Irish BostonGrowing Up Poor in Irish BostonEp. 29 Quincy QuarriesSend us a textEp. 29 Quincy Quarries. "Danger increases the fun for teen aged boys." Some really dangerous examples of what my youthful friends and I considered swimming holes fun. Support the show2025-06-0907 minGrowing Up Poor in Irish BostonGrowing Up Poor in Irish BostonEp. 68A Troubles Era Letter From County Cork Cousin & An Irish SongSend us a textEp. 68 Troubles Era Letter From County Cork Cousin & An Irish Song. An imagined letter from a cousin to his immigrated cousin about the Irish rebels and the Troubles with some humor, of course and a Song.Support the show2025-06-0404 minGrowing Up Poor in Irish BostonGrowing Up Poor in Irish BostonEp. 71B Murphy's Comedy ClubSend us a textEp. 71B Murphy's Comedy Club provides another batch of Paddy Murphy jokes in  locations in Ireland and the the USA.Support the show2025-06-0307 minGrowing Up Poor in Irish BostonGrowing Up Poor in Irish BostonEp. 71C Murphy's Comedy ClubSend us a textEp. 71C Murphy's Comedy Club provides another batch of Paddy Murphy jokes in  locations in Ireland and the the USA.Support the show2025-06-0106 minGrowing Up Poor in Irish BostonGrowing Up Poor in Irish BostonEp. 71A Murphy's Comedy ClubSend us a textEp. 71A Murphy's Comedy Club provides some Paddy Murphy jokes in locations in Ireland the the USA.Support the show2025-05-3105 minGrowing Up Poor in Irish BostonGrowing Up Poor in Irish BostonEp. 31 Murphy Brothers' Bloodline DiscussionSend us a textEp. 31 Murphy Brothers' Bloodline Discussion discusses conversations between my bother, Garry and I about our County Cork grandfather, Patrick Murphy and our great grandfather, Con Murphy. Both were Irish rebels.Support the show2025-05-2905 minGrowing Up Poor in Irish BostonGrowing Up Poor in Irish BostonEp. 39 Living Free at the Boy Scout CampSend us a textEp. 39 Living Free at the Boy Scout Camp relates how my parish's Boy Scout camp in then rural Bedford provided such wonderful and freeing, outdoor experiences for us, Boy Scouts in the 50s. I do a little raw ranting towards the end about letting kids be kids.Support the show2025-05-2807 minGrowing Up Poor in Irish BostonGrowing Up Poor in Irish BostonEp. 67C My Conflict with Quebecois SeparatistsSend us a textEp. 67C My Conflict with Quebecois Separatists. This episode reflects my fiery meeting with Quebecois who wanted independence from Canada.Support the show2025-05-2605 minGrowing Up Poor in Irish BostonGrowing Up Poor in Irish BostonEp. 67B The Murphys Honeymoon & Jean's Acadian AncestorSend us a textEp. 67B The Murphys Honeymoon & Jean's Acadian Ancestor. This one talks about our honeymoon trip to Quebec and Jean's long ago French ancestor, Pierre Michaud.Support the show2025-05-2608 minGrowing Up Poor in Irish BostonGrowing Up Poor in Irish BostonEp. 17 Big Brother's Brutal Swimming LessonSend us a textEp. 17 Big Brother's Brutal Swimming Lesson relates how Little Roddy learns to swim.Support the show2025-05-2404 minGrowing Up Poor in Irish BostonGrowing Up Poor in Irish BostonEp.23. World War 2 Patriotic HomefrontSend us a textEp.23. World War 2 Patriotic Homefront  Unlike the Vietnam War homefront openion which was contentious. America's citizens were very patriotic and supportive of our soldiers and sailors during WW2. I talk about it in this episode.Support the show2025-05-2304 minGrowing Up Poor in Irish BostonGrowing Up Poor in Irish BostonEp. 45 Where to Dissipate in My 1950s BostonSend us a textEp. 45 Where to Dissipate in My 1950s Boston describes drinking, chasing women and carousing in my youth in Boston and Cambridge, etc. Support the show2025-05-2304 minGrowing Up Poor in Irish BostonGrowing Up Poor in Irish BostonEp. 67A O Canada & Our Gaspe AdventureSend us a textEp. 67A O Canada & Our Gaspe Adventure. This episode is about being 13 years old and going on big adventure with my big brother, Garry to the Gaspe Penisula in Eastern Canada.Support the show2025-05-2207 minGrowing Up Poor in Irish BostonGrowing Up Poor in Irish BostonEp. 48 Polyglot Boston & CambridgeSend us a textEp. 48 Polyglot Boston & Cambridge is an episode spelling out ethnicity and language differences in Greater Boston.Support the show2025-05-2208 minRun That BackRun That BackMay 21, 2025 - Penultimate Show with Bob Clausen, Rod Murphy, Nathanael & Kim RoneyOur penultimate show! We continue to celebrate 12 years of bringing you indie sports radio as we welcome back some of our favorite guests. This time, it's Kim & Nathanael Roney, Rod Murphy, and Bob Clausen with baseball, basketball, and hockey talk as well as more of our guests' favorite Run That Back/Steve Sax Syndrome moments. 2025-05-2246 minGrowing Up Poor in Irish BostonGrowing Up Poor in Irish BostonEp. 53 Vengeance at Murphy FlatSend us a textEp. 53 Vengeance at Murphy Flat describes the Murphy kids and how we indivually handled getting even for ratting out a sibling. It wasn't pretty.Support the show2025-05-2010 minGrowing Up Poor in Irish BostonGrowing Up Poor in Irish BostonEp. 35 Hotel Commander NotesSend us a textEp. 35 Hotel Commander Notes This one relates my first part time job where taxes got taken out. I was a busboy at the Hotel Commander in Harvard Square.Support the show2025-05-1803 minGrowing Up Poor in Irish BostonGrowing Up Poor in Irish BostonEp.44 Quincy Market Wildcat StrikeSend us a textEp.44 Quincy Market Wildcat Strike describes my mugging and unhappy experience with labor unions.  Support the show2025-05-1708 minGrowing Up Poor in Irish BostonGrowing Up Poor in Irish BostonEp.58 Savage AmusementSend us a textEp.58 Savage Amusement. Outdoor and often really dangerous fun and games were my daily life as a kid.Support the show2025-05-1709 minGrowing Up Poor in Irish BostonGrowing Up Poor in Irish BostonEp. 40 Shooting Crap & Other Gambling StoriesSend us a textEp. 40  Shooting Crap & Other Gambling Stories relates how kids and adults engaged in gambling in my youth. It was less organized and "offline" rather than as it is today.Support the show2025-05-1405 minGrowing Up Poor in Irish BostonGrowing Up Poor in Irish BostonEp. 55 Neighborhood Creeps & Verboten Coal YardSend us a textEp. 55  Neighborhood Creeps & Verboten Coal Yard discusses what jailed convicts consider lowlifes. In prison child molesters are called "Short Eyes" and they punished by other cons every day. We had child molesters in our neighborhood and they were also dealt with harshly. A second story involves our neighborhood coal yard.Support the show2025-05-1405 minGrowing Up Poor in Irish BostonGrowing Up Poor in Irish BostonEp. 34 The ER Was the Murphy's Health Care.Send us a textEp. 34 The ER Was the Murphy's Health Care. The Murphys did not have Medicare or other employee type heath care plans. They didn't exist. We had the Cambridge Cityy Hospital Emergency Room and we used it alot for broken arms, nail punctures, stitches on series cuts and the like.Support the show2025-05-1307 minGrowing Up Poor in Irish BostonGrowing Up Poor in Irish BostonEp. 14B My Pond in the CitySend us a textEp. 14B My Pond in the City details a little bit of heaven for a little boy in a noisy, crowded city.Support the show2025-05-1306 minGrowing Up Poor in Irish BostonGrowing Up Poor in Irish BostonEp.26A Do We Have A Choice?Send us a textEp.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.Support the show2025-05-1207 minGrowing Up Poor in Irish BostonGrowing Up Poor in Irish BostonEp. 26B Do We Have A Choice?Send us a textEp. 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.Support the show2025-05-1216 minGrowing Up Poor in Irish BostonGrowing Up Poor in Irish BostonEp. 4 Growing Up, UnwashedSend us a textEp. 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.Support the show2025-05-0905 minGrowing Up Poor in Irish BostonGrowing Up Poor in Irish BostonEp. 25 1940-50s Radio & TVSend us a textEp. 25 1940-50s Radio & TV talks about that era, popular radio shows and later how the Murphys got their first television set.Support the show2025-05-0903 minGrowing Up Poor in Irish BostonGrowing Up Poor in Irish BostonEp. 61B Fort Jackson & CopsSend us a textEp. 61B Fort Jackson & Cops. This episode continues my peasetime Army experiences in the Jim Crow South.Support the show2025-05-0809 minGrowing Up Poor in Irish BostonGrowing Up Poor in Irish BostonEp. 61C U.S. Army Mess Hall Follies & Myrtle BeachSend us a textEp. 61C US Army Mess Hall Follies & Myrtle Beach. This episode continues to tell some anecdotes of my peacetime military experiences.Support the show2025-05-0809 minGrowing Up Poor in Irish BostonGrowing Up Poor in Irish BostonEp. 61A Army Basic Training StoriesSend us a textEp. 61A Army Basic Training Stories. Little Roddy becomes a soldier.Support the show2025-05-0706 minGrowing Up Poor in Irish BostonGrowing Up Poor in Irish BostonEp.18 Speaker Tip O'Neil & My College ExpulsionSend us a textEp.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.Support the show2025-05-0707 minGrowing Up Poor in Irish BostonGrowing Up Poor in Irish BostonEp. 10 Dollars Fall with the SnowSend us a textEp. 10 Dollars Fall with the Snow discusses making money shoveling snow in the wealthy neighborhoods.Support the show2025-05-0602 minGrowing Up Poor in Irish BostonGrowing Up Poor in Irish BostonEp. 42 From Dungarees to Blue JeansSend us a textEp. 42 From Dungarees to Blue Jeans makes a case for disrupting the American descent into almost 100% indistinguishability from each other. Support the show2025-05-0605 minGrowing Up Poor in Irish BostonGrowing Up Poor in Irish BostonEp. 11 My New Years Eve in Times SquareSend us a textEp. 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!Support the show2025-05-0605 minGrowing Up Poor in Irish BostonGrowing Up Poor in Irish BostonEp. 15 Rosie the RiveterSend us a textEp. 15 Rosie the Riveter tells the story of World War 2 housewives stepping up to take factory jobs making munitions, etc.Support the show2025-05-0402 minGrowing Up Poor in Irish BostonGrowing Up Poor in Irish BostonEp.32A Dad's Failed Fire Extinguisher BusinessSend us a textEp.32A Dad's Failed Fire Extinguisher Business portrays my father's side gig attempts to fatten up the family income.Support the show2025-05-0405 minGrowing Up Poor in Irish BostonGrowing Up Poor in Irish BostonEp.14A Jesus Coming through the RoofSend us a textEp.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.Support the show2025-05-0403 minGrowing Up Poor in Irish BostonGrowing Up Poor in Irish BostonEp. 59 Boston Mayors & the MurphysSend us a textEp. 59 Boston Mayors & the Murphys relates experiences by Murphy family members with Boston mayors.Support the show2025-05-0305 minGrowing Up Poor in Irish BostonGrowing Up Poor in Irish BostonEp. 47 My Roxbury Real Estate OfficeSend us a textEp. 47 My Roxbury Real Estate Office tells of my young man's experience as a real estate broker in Roxbury.Support the show2025-05-0310 minGrowing Up Poor in Irish BostonGrowing Up Poor in Irish BostonEp. 37 Flyfishing in the SlumsSend us a textEp. 37 Flyfishing in the Slums is a description of fishing in Boston's urban Charles River and my 10 year old attempts at flyfishing.Support the show2025-05-0204 minGrowing Up Poor in Irish BostonGrowing Up Poor in Irish BostonEp. 33 Uncle Clarence's Haunted HouseSend us a textEp. 33 Uncle Clarence's Haunted House portrays our family's summer vacations and my mother's old Yankee farmer's kinds haunted house.Support the show2025-05-0208 minGrowing Up Poor in Irish BostonGrowing Up Poor in Irish BostonEp. 27 Outdoor Confession in Boston's Combat ZoneSend us a textEp. 27 Outdoor Confession in Boston's Combat Zone talks about the RC Sacrament of Penance and how my generation of Catholics understood their Faith.Support the show2025-05-0212 minGrowing Up Poor in Irish BostonGrowing Up Poor in Irish BostonEp. 65 Irish America DisappearingSend us a textEp. 65 Irish America Disappearing bemoans the loss  of today's Irish American population lack of knowledge and understanding of our forbears and their native country.Support the show2025-04-3004 minGrowing Up Poor in Irish BostonGrowing Up Poor in Irish BostonEp.1B The Murphys, Tom & Helen's KidsSend us a textEp.1B The Murphys, Tom & Helen's Kids presents my family, 7 kids and a mother and father as atypical in our less than affluent beginnings.Support the show2025-04-3010 minGrowing Up Poor in Irish BostonGrowing Up Poor in Irish BostonEp. 66 Christmas at the Murphys in the 1950sSend us a textEp. 66 Christmas at the Murphys in the 1950s describes the warm and loving Murphy family in the 1950s at Christmas.Support the show2025-04-3005 minGrowing Up Poor in Irish BostonGrowing Up Poor in Irish BostonEpisode 51A Catholic School & DisciplineSend us a textEpisode 51A Catholic School & Discipline describes why Catholic schools were so effective in teaching kids Reading, Writing and Rithmatic.Support the show2025-04-2909 minGrowing Up Poor in Irish BostonGrowing Up Poor in Irish BostonEpisode 51B Catholic School & DisciplineSend us a textEpisode 51B Catholic School & Discipline describes why Catholic schools were so effective in teaching kids Reading, Writing and Rithmatic.Support the show2025-04-2906 minGrowing Up Poor in Irish BostonGrowing Up Poor in Irish BostonEpisode 5B Fenway Park & Illicit Parking GigSend us a textEpisode 5B Fenway Park & Illicit Parking Gig. This one shows the innate larcenous creativeness of so-called poor kids.Support the show2025-04-2903 minGrowing Up Poor in Irish BostonGrowing Up Poor in Irish BostonEp. 30 My Faith & ConscienceSend us a textEpisode 30 My Faith & Conscience provides listeners and viewers of how I became a leader in the battle against abortion. Support the show2025-04-2808 minGrowing Up Poor in Irish BostonGrowing Up Poor in Irish BostonEp. 32B Cleaning Up at Harvard StadiumSend us a textEpisode 32B Cleaning Up at Harvard Stadium provides further details of Little Roddy's entrepreneurial efforts.Support the show2025-04-2803 minGrowing Up Poor in Irish BostonGrowing Up Poor in Irish BostonEp. 22 What? Opera in the Hood?Send us a textEpisode 22 What? Opera in the Hood? discusses an unusual aoppreciation of opera plus music and singing in the Murphy family. Support the show2025-04-2808 minGrowing Up Poor in Irish BostonGrowing Up Poor in Irish BostonEp. 21 Intrepid NewsboySend us a textEpisode 21 Intrepid Newsboy presents me at an very early age showing my innate ballsy nature as an aggressive hawker of newspapers.Support the show2025-04-2612 minGrowing Up Poor in Irish BostonGrowing Up Poor in Irish BostonEp. 38 General MacArthur's Triumphant TourSend us a textEpisode 38 General MacArthur's Triumphant Tour recalls the time after the Korean War when MacArthur was being considered for president. His entourage drove right by our neighborhood on Storrow Drive. He was not however "Storrowed" for those who get the traffic idea.Support the show2025-04-2604 minGrowing Up Poor in Irish BostonGrowing Up Poor in Irish BostonEp. 5A Flopping Fish & Trolley CarsSend us a textEpisode 5A Flopping Fish & Trolley Cars is my memories of my big brother Garyy taking me to City Point in Southie to fish in the ocean. Support the show2025-04-2606 minGrowing Up Poor in Irish BostonGrowing Up Poor in Irish BostonEp 49 The Canonization of St. RoddySend us a textEpisode The Canonization of St. RoddyThis episode provides a tongue in cheek literary device. The illusory sainthood reward for a devilish little boy.Support the show2025-04-2403 minGrowing Up Poor in Irish BostonGrowing Up Poor in Irish BostonEp. 41 Who Needs Exlax?Send us a textEpisode 41 Who Needs Exlax?This episode agonizes over my mostly unhappy high school days.Support the show2025-04-2412 minGrowing Up Poor in Irish BostonGrowing Up Poor in Irish BostonEp. 19 Dog Bites BoySend us a textEp. 19 Dog Bites Boy is a true story about why you should not tease a German Shepherd.Support the show2025-04-2305 minGrowing Up Poor in Irish BostonGrowing Up Poor in Irish BostonEp. 46 Eugenics & the Fernald SchoolSend us a textThis 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.  Support the show2025-04-2310 minGrowing Up Poor in Irish BostonGrowing Up Poor in Irish BostonEp. 43 Little Roddy Discovers Glenn MillerSend us a textEp. 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.Support the show2025-04-2305 minGrowing Up Poor in Irish BostonGrowing Up Poor in Irish BostonEp. 28 Boys Camp & MaliceSend us a textThis 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.Support the show2025-04-2213 minGrowing Up Poor in Irish BostonGrowing Up Poor in Irish BostonEp. 36 Nothing FitsSend us a textThis Episode, “Nothing Fits” perhaps allows listeners, whose youthful economic situation was better than mine, to see the small things that poverty brings also.Support the show2025-04-2203 minGrowing Up Poor in Irish BostonGrowing Up Poor in Irish BostonEpisode 12 Weinstein's FenceSend us a textThis 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.Support the show2025-04-2109 minGrowing Up Poor in Irish BostonGrowing Up Poor in Irish BostonEp. 2B Boston & Cambridge GeographySend us a textThese 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. Support the show2025-04-1804 minGrowing Up Poor in Irish BostonGrowing Up Poor in Irish BostonEpisode #2A Boston & Cambridge GeographySend us a textThese 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. Support the show2025-04-1803 minGrowing Up Poor in Irish BostonGrowing Up Poor in Irish BostonEpisode #1 Growing Up Poor in Irish BostonSend us a textThis 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.Support the show2025-04-1805 minGrowing Up Poor in Irish BostonGrowing Up Poor in Irish BostonEp. 8 Puttsy, Shooky & Other Boston NicknamesSend us a textWhat nicknames do my listeners remember during their youth? I think imagination and IQ is shrinking in today’s youth. Support the show2025-03-3106 minGrowing Up Poor in Irish BostonGrowing Up Poor in Irish BostonEp.7 Shine Mistah?Send us a textThis Episode gives a glimpse of a poor kid, me, beginning to be an entrepreneur.Support the show2025-03-3107 minGrowing Up Poor in Irish BostonGrowing Up Poor in Irish BostonEp. 16 Winning the Huck Finn ContestSend us a textThis 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.Support the show2025-03-3104 minGrowing Up Poor in Irish BostonGrowing Up Poor in Irish BostonEp. 17 Boys Camp & Malice2025-03-3113 minGrowing Up Poor in Irish BostonGrowing Up Poor in Irish BostonEpisode #3 Who the Murphys AreSend us a textThis 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!Support the show2025-03-3108 minRun That BackRun That BackAugust 2, 2023 - NBA Summer League in Vegas with Rod MurphyRod Murphy and "Intern" Fran Murphy join the show this week to talk about their experience at the NBA Summer League in Las Vegas last month with observations about Victor Wembanyama, the Celtics, and more. We'll also discuss the Women's World Cup and the somewhat lackluster USWNT. 2023-08-0344 minThe Gracious FundamentalistThe Gracious FundamentalistRod Taylor on The Christian Heritage Party with a Q and A.Rod Taylor and I discuss the reason for and history of The Christians Heritage Party of Canada. We also do a Q&A about certain platform points.  2023-05-0945 minReal Estate Entrepreneur with Terrence MurphyReal Estate Entrepreneur with Terrence Murphy50 Million Dollar Loss to Multifamily Giant w/ Rod KhliefARE YOU RECESSION PROOF? The tide is turning and the market isn’t letting up! We welcome “Mr. Lifetime Cashflow” himself, Rod Khlief! Rod kicks off Season 3 with value bombs for those struggling in the shifting market and speaks on why he sticks to multifamily over almost anything else. Rod is one of the few to bounce back from the crash in 2008, there is no question that you’ll find a gem in today’s episode. For more information, check out Rod’s resources at rodslinks.com, and be sure to comment, like, subscribe, and click the notifications to stay up to d...2023-05-0238 minVettes of Atlanta MagazineVettes of Atlanta MagazineDeb Murphy Shares Her Insights Into the National Council Of Corvette Clubs Sure, you've heard about the National Council of Corvette Clubs, but how much do you really know about the group? For instance, did you know this is an all-volunteer organization? Or that they are a non-profit formed in 1959 by a small group of Corvette enthusiasts? Today, the NCCC has 250 clubs divided into 16 regions covering the country. All told, they have more than 19,000 members and are considered by many to be the largest non-profit, all-volunteer Corvette organization in the United States. Deb Murphy, the newly elected President, shares her considerable insights in...2023-02-0220 minVettes of Atlanta MagazineVettes of Atlanta MagazineDeb Murphy Shares Her Insights Into the National Council Of Corvette Clubs Sure, you've heard about the National Council of Corvette Clubs, but how much do you really know about the group? For instance, did you know this is an all-volunteer organization? Or that they are a non-profit formed in 1959 by a small group of Corvette enthusiasts? Today, the NCCC has 250 clubs divided into 16 regions covering the country. All told, they have more than 19,000 members and are considered by many to be the largest non-profit, all-volunteer Corvette organization in the United States. Deb Murphy, the newly elected President, shares her considerable insights in...2023-02-0220 minThe Brothers TalkThe Brothers TalkEpisode 126: Dr. Elvage Murphy Attorney Turned Educator & Author...Rod, Scott, and Norm dialog and converse with Elvage Murphy, JD, former prosecutor, public defender, and college instructor turned middle school teacher and author of, "My Debt To You" chronicling his journey to manhood...2022-06-1725 minRun That BackRun That BackApril 20, 2022 - NBA Playoffs with Rod MurphyThe NBA playoffs are back and are serving up a host of fun matchups, especially the Celtics-Nets series! Rod Murphy joins us to discuss Jayson Tatum's buzzer-beater from game 1 and what we can expect from the rest of the series. Also, we'll sneak in some 1980 Lakers talk thanks to HBO's fun Winning Time series.  2022-04-2146 minFrom Half Court: An NBA Podcast with Sean Murphy Jeff Iafrate and Troy SergeyFrom Half Court: An NBA Podcast with Sean Murphy Jeff Iafrate and Troy SergeySTATE OF THE PISTONS W/ ROD BEARD! - From Half Court Episode 36On the 1 year anniversary special of From Half Court, Sean and special guest Rod Beard (@detnewsRodBeard) talk about the state of the Pistons. Specifically, Saddiq Bey, Dwane Casey, Cade Cunningham, and what to expect at the deadline. We also look ahead at the draft to come. Rod Beard's Twitter: https://twitter.com/detnewsRodBeardRod Beard's work on The Detroit News (CHECK IT OUT, AMAZING PISTONS BEAT WRITER): https://www.detroitnews.com/staff/2646537001/rod-beard/ Sean's work on Woodward Sports: https://woodwardsports.com/author/sti...  Donations for “From Half Court” https://gofund.me/15216833 SUBSCRIBE TO THE CHANNEL https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCoCo...2022-01-2626 minStories Inside the Man CaveStories Inside the Man CaveEpisode 96 with Rod BabersSend us a textEpisode 96 with Rod BabersThe former Longhorn all-american defensive back, who played for Mack Brown in the early 2000s, has carved out and created his own brand as a talent for  104.9 The Horn- Local Austin SportsBabers consistently delivers true research in the form of statistics and trends regarding the Longhorns football teams and he is a well respected talent in the industry.Babers delivered again, the numbers inside the numbers from his analysis of the current Texas football team. These facts aren't just Rod's takes, these ar...2021-10-2249 minReal Estate Entrepreneur with Terrence MurphyReal Estate Entrepreneur with Terrence MurphyTeam Leader Built a Luxury Sales Business with Celebrity & Pro Athlete clients w/ Rod Watson How are you building relationships within your business?  We are joined by the CEO of The Watson Group (@lavipagent), Rod Watson! Rod touches on how he got in the game of real estate, from a long career in basketball to pivoting after the housing market crashed, Rod drops some serious nuggets in his company’s service to high net-worth individuals and his ingenious take on facilitating partnerships. Let us know what you learned in the episode by leaving us a rating and review! 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