Chiggerticky

"I'm Not That Kind of Person."

How the "grade economy" damages students.
CREDITS:
Opening monologue: Dana Carvey (Saturday Night Live)
Intro Music: "Bus Number 5" by Chiggerticky
Outro Music: "Stand Up!" by Chiggerticky

Let My People Speak

Why don't we let students have a say in what they will learn?
MUSIC CREDITS:
Opening Music: "Bus Number 5" by Chiggerticky
Closing Music: "Bad-Ass Opus #1" by Chiggerticky

WE BACK!

After a nearly 3-year hiatus, Chiggerticky resumes his rantful storytelling.
CREDITS:
OPENING THEME: "Bus Number 5" by Chiggerticky
CLOSING THEME: "Closin' Time at Nyrene's" by Chiggerticky
 

Old Fart

In podcast episode #20, Chigger examines how, in every age, those who have graduated to Old Fartdom find themselves facing a “brave new world.”
 
By the way, that phrase originates with Chiggerticky’s old pal, Billy Shakespeare who wrote a play in which a dude called Prospero proclaimed,
"Oh brave new world,
That has such people in’t."
Thanks for listening.
C’mon wid it!
NOTE: THE CHIGGERTICKY PODCAST WILL TAKE A FEW WEEKS OFF TO RAMP UP FOR SEASON #2 
MUSIC:
Intro:
“Yice Hole!”
by CHIGGERTICKY
 
Outro:
“I Died Using Latin”
by CHIGGERTICKY

”Mom”

...about that time a white momma went to teach in a black school,
and how it changed Chigger’s life late in the game.
Thanks for listening.
C’mon wid it!
 
MUSIC:
Intro:
“Yice Hole!”
by CHIGGERTICKY
 
Outro:
“Step Aside, Please”
by CHIGGERTICKY

Eddie & the Muse

Teacher Rule #18: “Never predict a student’s future.” Chigger goes back 53 years to a torrid day in tenth grade when his English teacher told a story on herself.
Thanks for listening.
C’mon wid it!
 
MUSIC:
Intro:
“Yice Hole!”
by CHIGGERTICKY
 
Outro:
“Graymont Avenue”
by CHIGGERTICKY
including a seven-second snippet of “The Way You Do the Things You Do,” performed by THE TEMPTATIONS (Eddie Kendricks, lead vocal), composed by Smokey Robinson & Bobby Rogers

The Phantom

“The only thing we have to fear is the LOSS of our fears.” Chigger ponders his own bastardization of FDR’s famous line.
Thanks for listening.
C’mon wid it!
 
MUSIC:
Intro:
“Yice Hole!”
by CHIGGERTICKY
 
Outro:
“Strolling with the Phantom”
by CHIGGERTICKY

Air Devils Inn

Chigger finds heaven in a dive bar in the late 1970s.
Thanks for listening.
C’mon wid it!
 
MUSIC:
Intro:
“Yice Hole!”
by CHIGGERTICKY
 
Outro:
“Air Devils Inn”
by CHIGGERTICKY
 

Family Secrets

Chigger’s ancestry holds a true tale of murder and mystery from the early 2oth century, a story his grandmother tried to keep secret. But, as Shakespeare puts it in The Merchant of Venice,
“...truth will come to light; 
murder cannot be hid long
…at the length 
  truth will out.“
* * *
Thanks for listening.
C’mon wid it!
 
MUSIC:
Intro:
“Yice Hole!”
by CHIGGERTICKY
 
Outro:
“Back of the Barn”
by CHIGGERTICKY

The Goot of God!

[This episode contains a story that some may find offensive.]
A seemingly benign eighth-grade boy strikes a blow against The Man and becomes a martyr in Chigger's memory.
MUSIC:
Intro:
"Yice Hole!"
by CHIGGERTICKY
Outro:
"Stickin' It to the Man!"
by CHIGGERTICKY