Episode 17: The Wordy Goons of Boston Part I: Escape from Southie
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Peter takes the lead on this ep! Guiding us through a deep dive into the once-thriving cottage industry of what was once the gold standard in some kind of white blue collar authenticity: Boston Irish gangster memoirs.
In Part 1 we deal the government creation of the island against the world community of South Boston, or Southie through the pouring of social democratic tendencies through the static mold of 19th century racist machine politics. We then turn to the memoirs of I-AM-NOT-A-RAT John "Red" Shea and the scummier, but more eloquent I-am-a-rat, and a racist, and a murderer but also a good guy Kevin Weeks.
But most importantly, your humble people's detective agency needs your help finding the (probably imaginary?) black-jewish-communist defender of children and arch-foe of Kevin Weeks: Siegfried Goldstein.
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