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Step back into the unforgettable world of boarding school life in Philadelphia during the electric 80s and bold 90s. Join two friends as they share firsthand accounts of mischievous pranks, late-night escapades, and the unique culture that defined their youth.
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Five Cents, Six Regrets: The Now & Later Ponzi Scheme (opens the original)
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Part 2 with the Berry brothers, Rich (’92) and Rasool (’95)! Hill Comics, Rich’s Now Later hustle, revisiting Rasool’s bathroom scandal, and our Season 2 finale NFC East predictions. Go Birds!
"Cheers Ruined Everything: The Sanford & Son Betrayal" (opens the original)
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Season 1 alums Rich and Rasool Berry return — together this time — for stories of Sesame Place abandonment, a VHS tape betrayal that caused a two-week feud, growing up split apart at Girard, and the infamous ”bobos” punishment over a lost pair of Nikes.
"This Way Out: One Man's Reflection on Girard" (opens the original)
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Girard College grad Ron DeChristoforo joins Mike and Dan to talk about the harsh discipline he endured in the 1960’s— and why, at 70 years old, he wrote a book as an apology to the classmates who never left his mind.
"The Underwear Uprising (feat. Ron DeChristoforo, Part 1)" (opens the original)
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A dirty laundry protest that ended with underwear dumped on a school president’s rug — this one’s real. Mike and Dan sit down with Ron DeChristoforo (Girard College, Class of ’68) for part one on life inside a free boarding school for kids of single parents: a shop teacher who crushed his drafting dreams (”you can’t design a basketball”), the underwear protest that actually worked, and coming of age in 1968 as NAACP protests outside the gates fought to desegregate the school. Plus: corporal puni
"Life Is Hard": Lessons from a Classroom in Crisis (opens the original)
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Part two with Alysia Mujica: boarding school culture shock, teaching ESL to kids carrying more trauma than most adults, and the 8-year-old who told her ”life is hard” after she lost her fiancé. Plus — how she balls on a budget and travels the world for less. Heavy and hopeful.
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