Episode notes
I, Robot by Hal George
Hal George reflects on the childhood year that reshaped his life, beginning with a cardboard robot costume and unraveling into the painful story beneath it. Forced to skip five grades, uprooted from friends, and thrust into a school where he felt unseen, Hal traces how a brilliant boy learned to mute his feelings and move through the world like a machine. Decades later, he begins to understand what was lost, what endured, and how he is finally reclaiming a full, human life.
Wanta See Somepin’ Good? by Tim Yearnshaw
Tim Yearnshaw takes us back to a California childhood where scrap wood, tricycle wheels, and big imaginations were all a gang of kids needed to build a “police wagon” worthy of the Dixon Tribune. As Tim, his brother, and their neighborhood friend Mike hammer, pa ...