Podcast appearances and mentions of Alan Reynolds

Hear from Drogheda's Kevin Doherty, Bohs boss Alan Reynolds, Damien Duff of Shelbourne, Sligo gaffer John Russell, Galway manager John Caulfield, Cork City boss Gerrard Nash, and Shamrock Rovers manager Stephen Bradley on this comprehensive roundup of LOI manager interviews from the past weekend.

A jubilant Alan Reynolds speaking to OTB's match commentator Stephen Doyle after Bohemians beat nine-man Shelbourne 1-0 at Dalymount Park.

On Tuesday's Football Daily, Phil Egan brings you news all the fallout from a big weekend of domestic action plus build-up and team news ahead of the Champions League semi final clash between Barcelona and Inter.Stephen Bradley and Damien Duff continue their war of words after the fall out between the pair two weeks ago.Bohemians' boss Alan Reynolds praises his side's fans after a late win in Galway.Drogheda United remain top of the pile, and their head coach Kevin Doherty feels like his side fully deserved their win over Cork City.Tiernan Lynch describes what it means to put on a Derry City shirt.Dungannon Swifts make history, but which of their players looks to be heading to Tallaght?And Hansi Flick's little genius Lamine Yamal is ready to light up Europe again.Become a member and subscribe at offtheball.com/join

On Tuesday's Football Daily, Phil Egan brings you news all the fallout from a big weekend of domestic action plus build-up and team news ahead of the Champions League semi final clash between Barcelona and Inter.Stephen Bradley and Damien Duff continue their war of words after the fall out between the pair two weeks ago.Bohemians' boss Alan Reynolds praises his side's fans after a late win in Galway.Drogheda United remain top of the pile, and their head coach Kevin Doherty feels like his side fully deserved their win over Cork City.Tiernan Lynch describes what it means to put on a Derry City shirt.Dungannon Swifts make history, but which of their players looks to be heading to Tallaght?And Hansi Flick's little genius Lamine Yamal is ready to light up Europe again.Become a member and subscribe at offtheball.com/join

On Friday's Football Daily, Phil Egan brings you news all the fallout from the Europa League semi finals plus all the build-up ahead of a huge night of domestic action.Manchester United head coach Ruben Amorim backs his senior pros after an historic win in Bilbao.Ange Postecoglou wants more of the same from his Spurs side.Nottingham Forest poor form continues.Arne Slot says he has had a message from Jurgen Klopp congratulating him on their league title win.Ruesha Littlejohn wants more done for the development of the LOI.Stephen Kenny says that every point is vital, whilst Bohemians' Rob Cornwall pays tribute to Alan Reynolds.Derry City boss Tiernan Lynch wants his side to bounce back whilst Waterford's Padraig Amond wants a turnaround in the Deise's fortunes.And finally, the Ireland under 15's make a racist complaint after a game with the UAE.Become a member and subscribe at offtheball.com/join

On Friday's Football Daily, Phil Egan brings you news all the fallout from the Europa League semi finals plus all the build-up ahead of a huge night of domestic action.Manchester United head coach Ruben Amorim backs his senior pros after an historic win in Bilbao.Ange Postecoglou wants more of the same from his Spurs side.Nottingham Forest poor form continues.Arne Slot says he has had a message from Jurgen Klopp congratulating him on their league title win.Ruesha Littlejohn wants more done for the development of the LOI.Stephen Kenny says that every point is vital, whilst Bohemians' Rob Cornwall pays tribute to Alan Reynolds.Derry City boss Tiernan Lynch wants his side to bounce back whilst Waterford's Padraig Amond wants a turnaround in the Deise's fortunes.And finally, the Ireland under 15's make a racist complaint after a game with the UAE.Become a member and subscribe at offtheball.com/join

On Tuesday's Football Daily, Cathal Mullaney brings you reaction to all the shock departure of Marc Canham from the FAI.There is also reaction to all of Monday's SSE Airtricity Premier Division games from Alan Reynolds, Stephen Bradley and more.There is cup final heartbreak for Troy Parrott in Holland.There will be another Irish player back in the English Premier LeagueAnd just who are Manchester United targeting to solve their goal-scoring crisis?Become a member and subscribe at offtheball.com/join

On Tuesday's Football Daily, Cathal Mullaney brings you reaction to all the shock departure of Marc Canham from the FAI.There is also reaction to all of Monday's SSE Airtricity Premier Division games from Alan Reynolds, Stephen Bradley and more.There is cup final heartbreak for Troy Parrott in Holland.There will be another Irish player back in the English Premier LeagueAnd just who are Manchester United targeting to solve their goal-scoring crisis?Become a member and subscribe at offtheball.com/join

Mipo Odubeko was sprung from the Shelbourne bench to win the Dublin derby with Bohemians at Tolks Park. After the game, the goalscorer - along with his manager, Damien Duff - spoke to OTB's match commentator Jonathan Higgins. He also caught up with under-fire Bohs boss Alan Reynolds.

On Wednesday's Football Daily, Phil Egan brings you reaction to the Republic of Ireland WNT's Nations League win over Greece. We hear from Tyler Toland, goalscorer Anna Patten and former Ireland midfielder Ciara Grant on that narrow victory in Tallaght. Mikel Arteta reveals some top-level help in his preparations for Arsenal's win over Real Madrid. Unai Emery defends his Aston Villa goalkeeper Emi Martinez as tensions build in Paris ahead of their quarter-final with PSG. We hear from Damien Duff on his beef with Bohemians manager Alan Reynolds, with Friday's Dublin derby live on Off The Ball.

With Kieran off to Plovdiv to support the Boys in Green it's a slightly (and we mean slightly) snappier pod this week.  Kieran & Gary reflect on last weekend's results across both divisions and look ahead to this week's First Division matches with the top flight on an international break.  The lads also delve into Alan Reynolds's bizarre post-Pat's interview, the even stranger BORST statement about referees, and touch on the public row engulfing Treaty United. If it's frank & opinionated LOI coverage you're after then it's got to be Between the Stripes.  Sponsored by QuinnAv.ie 

Bohemians returned to winning ways in fine style on Friday night, with a first-half Colm Whelan hat-trick handing them a 3-0 win away to Waterford. After the game, OTB's Jonathan Higgins caught up with Bohs' hat-trick here, as well as their manager Alan Reynolds, and a disappointed Waterford boss Keith Long.

On Tuesday's Football Daily, Phil Egan brings you up to date with an eventful round of fixtures in the League of Ireland Premier Division. We hear from Cork City boss Tim Clancy who has some choice words for referee Damien McGraith. Alan Reynolds demands a response from his Bohemians players after they slump to back-to-back defeats. Stephen Bradley gives his view of Shamrock Rovers' winless start to the season. Damien Duff on the hardest place to go in the Premier Division. Plus, Phil previews tonight's Champions League action. Bayern Munich are set to raid another Bundesliga side for one of their top players. And Barcelona's fresh blow in their attempts to return to the Camp Nou.

On Tuesday's Football Daily, Phil Egan brings you up to date with an eventful round of fixtures in the League of Ireland Premier Division. We hear from Cork City boss Tim Clancy who has some choice words for referee Damien McGraith. Alan Reynolds demands a response from his Bohemians players after they slump to back-to-back defeats. Stephen Bradley gives his view of Shamrock Rovers' winless start to the season. Damien Duff on the hardest place to go in the Premier Division. Plus, Phil previews tonight's Champions League action. Bayern Munich are set to raid another Bundesliga side for one of their top players. And Barcelona's fresh blow in their attempts to return to the Camp Nou.

Alan is the only guy in an all-girls school.By Cheat105. Listen to the ► Podcast at Explicit Novels.Hello, my name is Alan and through some strange twist of fate at age 18 I ended up the only boy in an all-girls school for my senior year. Now I understand, to most guys the idea of being surrounded by hot girls every day sounds like a dream come true, but being a teenage boy I was basically a walking hard on, which was like torture. How did I end up in this place? Well, long story short I got into some trouble and was kicked out of my old school and my mother who was the headmistress at Redwood Academy for Girls, pulled some strings and exceptions were made, so I got transferred here. It's a little hard to explain and I don't know all the details myself. The school didn't want to lose their head mistress, so a probationary enrollment was authorized by the regents.Now growing up in a family with only my mother, my sister, my aunt, and my 2 female cousins, I was used to being around women. My father had split when I was young and my aunt's husband had split too, which I'm quite sure left them feeling a bit jaded towards men. But despite their feelings toward men, they always treated me very well, so I never felt unloved or anything. Well that was until I became a teenager and started getting into trouble. Then I suppose the recent trouble with my school was the last straw and despite my mother going out on a limb to get me transferred to Redwood she seemed to act rather cold towards me, and I got a similar treatment from the rest of the family.On my first day in the new school, I was introduced by the teachers in all my classes and let's just say the reception was a little less than warm. Some girls looked at me curiously, clearly fascinated by the situation. But most of the girls met me with cold stares, quite obviously not happy about me, a guy being allowed in their school. And honestly, who could blame them? I didn't even try to make an effort to fit in, hell I didn't even wear the school uniform, right. The uniform which consisted of a gray blazer with school seal sewn onto the breast, a navy blue knit vest sweater, a white button down formal shirt, a tie, a pleated wool skirt or navy slacks, and brown leather dress shoes. The proper way to wear the uniform was the blazer closed with the three buttons going down the bottom half, white dress shirt tucked in and buttoned all the way up, and the tie done in your typical Windsor knot. (Being a male, the tie part only applied to me, the females had ties too but not the same as a men's tie. And I was forbidden to wear a skirt.)Anyways, having always hated dressing up; I walked into that school with the blazer unbuttoned and open, the white shirt only half-way tucked in with the top few buttons undone and the tie was half-assed at best. Not to mention my unkempt medium length brown hair and the unshaven stubble on my face. From the second I stepped foot on that campus most everyone looked at me like some kind of delinquent. And by the time I was being introduced in my classes, word had already gotten around that the new male student was a delinquent and somehow they even got the idea that I'm some kind of pervert. I'll concede the delinquent part, but a pervert? That frustrated me.There are probably some well-adjusted girls in this academy, but a bunch of the chicks are either man-haters, lesbians, phobic of all things male, or just generally snobs. Testosterone is regarded as a toxic and harmful scourge on half of the world's population, and responsible for the bulk of crime, violence, war, and the suppression of the enlightened feminine half of the world. The sociology department faculty advances these beliefs and even advocates such bigoted attitudes in their lectures. If a girl wasn't already a sexist bigot when she got there, she likely graduated as a fully converted bitch.When the first day of classes ended, I walked alone to the student dorms. I was supposed to be meeting with the RA concerning my living situation on campus. The campus was huge, countless classrooms and other facilities, three separate dorms each with their own cafeterias and rec rooms. It's really a miracle I didn't get lost. I got to the dorms and found the RA in her office. I noticed immediately that she was an attractive woman. She looked to be maybe in her late 20s to early 30s."Alan Reynolds?" she asked."Yeah," I said."Right. Well hello, I'm Danielle. I'm the resident assistant of these dorms. Go ahead and take a seat." she said, gesturing to a chair sitting in front of her desk.I took a seat while she turned her attention back to the computer sitting on her desk."I'll assign you a room here in a bit, but first I need to go over the rules with you. As you can imagine the situation is a bit unprecedented." she said turning her attention to me.I just nodded my head."First off, we don't have any designated men's facilities in the dorms. So we've had to make some new rules for the bathrooms and showers. I've made up a schedule for when you can use the showers; when nobody else is using them. As for the restrooms, since that obviously can't be scheduled, you'll have to use one of the guest restrooms on the main campus." she said, handing me a piece of paper with a list of times that I can use the showers."That's fine." I said, but thinking differently. Wonderful, I thought, this is basically like a fucking prison, scheduled showers? Fuck.I mean, I understood the reasoning, but it still bothered me none the less."Good" she said, with a smile. "If you'll follow me, I'll show you to your room." she added while standing up from her desk.I followed her out of her office and walked with her as she continued telling me about the dorm, the cafeteria, rec room, etc. She showed me to my room at the near end of the hall."For obvious reasons, you'll be given your own room. All students are expected to be in their rooms with lights out at 10pm. If you need anything, just ask, you know where my office is. Since your assigned room is near the stairs and shower room, you'll have to answer for any time you're seen further down the hall, or on any other residential floor. Several parents are not happy that a guy is in their daughter's school, so we've made a strong commitment to them that we would step up the monitoring of your presence." she said handing me the room key before walking away.I entered my room and took a look around. There were 2 beds, 2 dressers, 2 desks, and a pretty sizable closet that was clearly built for 2. Looking around at all the extra furnishings really hammered home how lonely my life would be at this school. Then again, I suppose having my own room was better than having to share like all the other students. I set my book bag down next to the desk and took a seat on the bed, luckily the bed was at least plenty comfortable, but I would need to get sheets, pillows, and blankets. However all of my stuff was out in mom's car, so I would have to go see her before the day was over.I got up and left my room, shutting the door and locking it behind me. I walked through the hall of the dorm, ignoring the stares from the girls. I made my way out of the dorm and onto the main campus. I was headed to the headmistress's office, my mom's office. When I got to the building where her office was located I walked in and found mom's office, the door was open so I didn't bother knocking or talking to her secretary."Mom," I said, to get her attention as she was busy working at her desk."I have a secretary for a reason, you know." she said, not even looking up from her work.She's been rather cold and distant like this ever since the trouble with my old school, so this was no surprise."I hardly think I need to ask a secretary to speak to my mother." I countered."Very well, what do you need? I'm busy." she responded."I need to get my stuff out of your car." I said.Mom then reached down to her purse on the floor beside her and grabbed her keys from one of the pockets. And she finally looked up from her work at me when she handed me the keys."Fix your uniform, Alan. And please get a haircut and shave. Try to make yourself presentable." she said before turning her attention back to her work.I didn't say anything more. I just stuffed the keys in my pocket and walked out of her office. Strangely enough it felt good that she acknowledged my improper wear of the uniform, it seems to have been the most attention she's paid to me in a long while. I walked out to the parking lot where mom's car was parked. I had a couple of boxes and bags, too much to carry all the way to the dorms, so I just drove the car over to the dorms and parked outside. I then got out and grabbed my two large duffel bags from the backseat and began carrying them to my room. I made note of the audience of girls watching me as I carried my bags. I dropped my bags off in my room, then made my way back out to the car. I popped the trunk and as I looked in the trunk to get my remaining boxes, I heard a female voice from behind me."Hey, you're the new male student, right? Alan's your name?" the female voice asked."Huh? Oh yeah," I said, turning around slightly startled.The voice had come from a pretty attractive brunette with green eyes. I couldn't tell much else about her due to the restrictive school uniform, but she had a light tan and stood about 5 foot 6. I remembered her from one of my morning classes. She's one of the few girls who didn't look at me with disgust. I also quickly noticed the number of girls outside the dorm who were giving me the stink eye as this girl spoke to me. And she must've noticed too."Oh don't worry about any of them. Most of them are just uppity bitches who are just jealous that their boyfriends aren't allowed on campus and you were." she said, looking around at the other girls.Wow, I thought, this girl just calls it how she sees it. It was a breath of fresh air to be sure."Anyways, you need some help carrying those boxes? Oh I'm Molly, by the way. Nice to meet you." she said with a smile and a cute giggle, reaching out her hand for a handshake."Uh yeah, nice to meet you, I'm Alan." I said, taking her petite hand in mine and shaking it."Yeah, I know. Everyone knows your name," she said with a another cute giggle."Oh, right." I said, with a nervous smile as I scratched the back of my head."You want some help? I can carry one of those for ya." she said, easing the nervous tension with a smile."Oh, um yeah. Thanks." I said, handing her the lighter of the two boxes."No problem." she said, as we began walking with the boxes to my room.Once we got to my room with the boxes I set them on the floor in my room, while Molly waited in the hall."Thanks for the help." I said, meeting her back out in the hall."It was no problem. And it was nice meeting you. Come talk to me sometime. I'll be eating dinner in the cafeteria around 6 if you wanted to come sit with me," she said with that same cute smile from before."Uh, yeah, I may do that." I said.With that she walked away. Meanwhile I headed back out to mom's car, so I could return it to her parking space. I drove the car back across campus as I thought about the girl. She was nice, and quite pretty. I would for sure take her up on her offer to eat with her. After all, I was getting pretty hungry. I parked mom's car back in her spot and then brought her keys back to her. I didn't bother to say anything to her, nor her to me. I just dropped the keys off and continued on my way to the dorms.Back in my room I checked the time, it was only about 5. That Molly girl had said she would be getting dinner around 6, so I had an hour to kill. I decided to go ahead and unpack my things, my casual clothes I put in the dresser, and I had a few spare uniforms that I hung in the closet. I unpacked my computer from one of the boxes and set it up on the desk. In the other box was some sheets, a blanket, and a couple of pillows, I made up my bed and by the time I'd finished unpacking it was nearly 6.I left my room and headed to the cafeteria. I grabbed a plate of food and looked for a place to sit. I quickly noticed Molly. She was sitting by herself. So I walked over and sat across from her."Hey, I was wondering if you were coming." she said, greeting me."Yeah I got hungry." I said, as I began to eat."Did you get everything unpacked okay?" she asked, looking up from her own food."Yeah," I said.We continued our small talk like that for a little while. She asked how I ended up in this school. I didn't tell her the whole truth, only that I had gotten in trouble at my last school and they gave me the boot. I could tell she was still curious and wanted the whole story, but she didn't press thankfully. As we continued talking, 3 girls walked up to the table, I prepared myself to be insulted by them, but no insults came."Hey Molly!" the 3 girls said in unison."Hey guys, have a seat." Molly replied.I deduced that they were friends of Molly."So who's the guy?" one girl asked Molly."This is the new student, Alan." Molly replied."Oh, so this is the male student I've been hearing about all day. Well, I'm Katie." the same girl responded."And I'm Amanda." one of the others chimed in."I'm Erin." the last one added.They all had friendly smiles as they introduced themselves."Oh. Well, as Molly said, I'm Alan. It's nice to meet all of you." I said, returning their friendly smiles."We're all on the volleyball team together." Molly said."Oh cool, I didn't even know this place has a volleyball team." I said."Well, you probably don't know much about this place, do ya?" Katie said, with a giggle."I know, look at the way he wears the uniform." Amanda chimed in with a laugh, pointing at my disheveled appearance, the other girls let out a laugh as well."Ah well, you know, just thought I'd make a fashion statement." I said, try my hand at some humor and all 5 of us began laughing.We all sat there talking and laughing for a few minutes when I decided to check the time. It was nearly 8:30, which was one of my scheduled shower times."Well ladies, I do hate to cut this short but I gotta get going. I'll talk to y'all some other time." I said, before getting up.The girls all said goodbye, then I left. I quickly went back to my room, grabbed a towel, a change of clothes, along with a toothbrush and toothpaste, shampoo, and bodywash then went to the showers. The showers were empty as expected, Danielle, the RA, had already gone over this schedule with all the girls living in the dorm. I set my towel and clothes on the counter and put my shampoo, bodywash, etc. in one of the shower stalls. I then quickly removed my clothing and got in the shower. It felt good standing under the relaxing cascade of hot water after such a long and stressful day. But as I had only been allotted 15 minutes in the shower, I couldn't relax too much. So I brushed my teeth quickly then washed my hair and body afterward. I then got out of the shower and began drying off. I put on a clean pair of boxers and athletic shorts I'd brought with me. I didn't think to grab a shirt to take to the bathroom, besides the shower was just down the hall from me, so being shirtless for a few seconds wouldn't hurt. I grabbed my dirty clothes, towel, and hygiene products and left the showers.As I walked out into the hall, I noticed almost immediately that there were several girls out in the hall and they were staring at me, well my shirtless torso to be more precise. Now look, I'm not a muscle-bound meathead by any means, but I did have some decent muscles and noticeable abs from working out and stood at about 6'0. Plus, coming from a family of naturally attractive people, I was at least reasonably handsome myself, or so I've been told. I was just glad the girls weren't staring at me in disgust for once, so I didn't mind the attention as I walked back to my room.Back in my room I put my dirty clothes in my laundry bag, then sat at my desk and turned on my computer. Luckily the dorms all had Wi-Fi so I was able to connect to the internet. I decided to check my Facebook to see what my old friends were up to. I saw that I had received friend requests from Molly, Katie, Amanda, and Erin. I accepted the friend requests then signed out of Facebook. I then turned on some music and went over to my bed to lie down.I laid in bed listening to music and I thought about the day's events. At first I dreaded having to go this school, but the first day wasn't actually so bad, I did at least manage to meet a few intriguing girls. What an attractive group of girls, I thought. They were all seniors, like me, except they were actually supposed to be in this school, unlike me. Katie had dirty blonde hair that stopped just below her jawline and hazel eyes, she was certainly shorter and more petite than the other girls, standing about 5 foot zero, but had the more outgoing personality. Amanda had shoulder length flaxen blonde hair and light blue eyes, she had without a doubt the more curvy body type, her ample bust was noticeable even under that restrictive school uniform, and she's about 5 foot 5. Erin had long dark almost black hair and brown eyes, I'd say she was the most average of the group, she stood about 5 foot 3 and while the other girls all had light tans of varying tones, Erin's skin was a bit paler, not ghost white or anything but not tan either. Don't get me wrong, Erin was plenty attractive too, she just didn't stick out like the other girls did. Plus, she seemed to have a more reserved personality.Being a teenage boy with raging hormones, I immediately began to think about whether I had a shot with any of these girls. But then I remembered how I ended up in this school and realized I should just suppress my own urges and forget about it, lest I get kicked out of this school as well. You see, that trouble I got into at my old school, it was those very same hormones. Those damned accursed hormones that led me astray. Long story short, I got caught having sex with a female student in the girl's bathroom. Then as if that alone wasn't bad enough, the girl's parents tried to say I forced her to have sex with me and threatened to get the law involved. In the end they got a restraining order against me, I was banned from ever setting foot on the school's property, and I was forced to leave the county completely. No one believed for a second that I was innocent and the girl's parents had pressured her to keep quiet, all of my friends stopped talking to me and even my own family began ignoring me. The whole matter got swept under the rug, but the damage was done. My mother, left with no options pulled some strings to get me into Redwood Academy for Girls, and trust me I see the irony in that, considering my supposed crime. I just want to set the record straight, I have never nor would I ever pressure a girl into sex.Needless to say, the whole incident had a lasting effect on me. I couldn't so much as look at a girl without getting nervous now. I guess subconsciously the only thing I could think about was what all could go wrong, that history would repeat itself and I would end up in the exact same kind of situation that got me here in the first place. So I resolved to keep my hormone in check. I should just focus on my education, I told myself, and getting my family to forgive me. The latter would be much easier said than done. I still remember what my mother said to me after the incident, she looked at me with cold eyes and said: "I guess you're no different than any other man. I'm so disappointed in you." Her words cut me like a knife, and after a while I stopped trying to plead my innocence to her. I was depressed most of the time, constantly questioning why the girl wouldn't just come clean, wondering why her parents had such an axe to grind, after all it was just a couple of horny teenagers doing what horny teenagers do. But most of all what bothered me was that my own family had never even stopped to hear my side of the story.Anyways back to the story, I was laying in my bed listening to music, thinking about the past. I was feeling pretty shitty, when suddenly I got a notification on my phone, the short ringing sound drew me out my own head and I checked my smart phone to see what it was. It was a notification of a Facebook message from Molly.It read: "Hey, I see you accepted my friend request. Here's my cell number, text me sometime."I immediately forgot about my sorrows as I read her message. I know I had resolved to keep my hormones in check, but what harm could come from just talking to a girl? So I saved the attached number to my phone, then proceeded to send a text.Me: Hey, it's Alan. I just got your message.Molly: Great! And now I've got your number, I hope you don't mind if I give it to Katie, Amanda, and Erin.Me: No, that's fine.Molly: Awesome. So what ya up to?Me: Just lying in bed listening to music til I get tired, probably go to sleep here in a few minutes.Molly: Yeah same here. Hey, text me tomorrow and we'll meet up for breakfast. Goodnight!Me: Will do. Goodnight.With that I turned off my phone and plugged it into the charger, then went over to my computer and shut it down. I lay back down in my bed and closed my eyes to go to sleep. My first day was finally over, and all in all it hadn't been so bad. I met several girls who were nice and fun to be around. Maybe this school wouldn't be so bad after all, I thought as I fell asleep.Over the next few weeks, I talked to Molly and the other 3 girls quite a bit, and we all were getting along pretty well. I was beginning to enjoy this new school I had been dreading at first. I was actually having fun. Sure, there were still plenty of other girls around school that would shoot me the stink eye anytime they saw me and they would even direct their looks towards Molly, Katie, Amanda, and Erin when we were spending time together. Anytime we had free time the 5 of us would hang out, sometimes we would even leave the school campus to go into the city and catch a movie, visit shops, or grab a bite to eat when we got tired of eating at school. Molly and I had especially gotten closer, we would talk with and/or text each other most every day. We'd gotten to where we talked about most everything with each other, no matter how personal. We trusted each other implicitly. But the one thing I could never bring myself to tell her was about the trouble at my old school, I wanted to avoid reliving those sour memories at all costs, I would take them to my grave if possible. Also I just didn't want her to think less of me, even though I was sure she may be the only person who would believe my side of the story, I still couldn't bring myself to talk about it. And even though I was certain I was beginning to fall this girl. I could never make a move. My past still haunted me and prevented me from doing so.Anyways volleyball season was just about to start so that meant the girls wouldn't have as much free time anymore because they would be busy practicing. Luckily Molly and the girls invited me to come watch their practices anytime I wanted. So when I got done with classes for the day I would go sit in the gym bleachers and do my homework as I watched them practice, which served as good entertainment, but also good eye candy as often times the girls would practice in just their sports bras and short tight athletic shorts. It was almost as if they forgot there was a hormonal teenage guy sitting in the bleachers watching them, or they just didn't care. Either way it provided me the opportunity to get a better look at their bodies. But anytime I found myself staring for too long, I would have to reprimand myself, after all I had promised myself I wouldn't get into the same situation that landed me in so much trouble at my old school. I told myself it was okay to look, but I mustn't try to take it any further than that. No matter how beautiful these girls were, I had to fight my urges. I could not afford to screw this up. Little did I know, on one particular day I would soon find myself embroiled in a similar set of circumstances but with a very different outcome.Said day was a Wednesday. Practice had been cut short because Molly had rolled her ankle trying to go for a save. It wasn't severe or anything, and wouldn't inhibit her from playing in the upcoming first match, but the coach had told her to stay off it for a few days. After the practice was cut short that evening Amanda and I helped Molly walk by letting her brace herself on our shoulders. We first went to the cafeteria for a quick meal, then we helped her to her dorm room. That's where we parted ways and I went to my room, where I relaxed on my bed with some music playing on my computer. It was just past curfew when I heard a knock at my door. I got up walked over to the door wondering who could be visiting so late. I opened the door and to my surprise it was Molly, still in her practice clothes."Molly, what the hell? I thought you were supposed to stay off that ankle?" I said in shock. "Not only that, do you know how late it is?" I continued."I know. Look can I come in and sit for a bit?" she said with pain in her face and voice."Um, okay, sure" I nervously said, I couldn't in good conscience just make her limp all the way back to her room."Don't worry, my roomie is sleeping and everyone else in their rooms, so no one saw me." she said, as I helped her over to the chair at my desk, shutting the door behind her and making one last check that nobody saw."Okay, but what about Danielle? What happens when she does her nightly room checks?" I said, worried that the RA could pop in at any second and get the wrong idea about why Molly was in my room."Oh, she's out with her boyfriend tonight. She won't be back til late. But that's a secret, so shush, don't tell nobody." she replied with a giggle. "Seriously, don't tell anyone, she could lose her job." Molly stopped laughing."Ok. So what's up?" I asked, still confused as to why Molly was in my room."Well I tried to sleep but this damn ankle hurts so bad. After awhile I got bored and wanted someone to talk to. Seeing as my roomie is sleeping and I knew you would still be up, I just decided to come see you." Molly replied, flashing that same cute smile that I had become entranced by on many occasions."Damn, I had no idea it hurt that bad, tough break, I'm sorry. Let me know if there's anything I can do." I said, showing real concern.After a pause, as though she were mulling it over, she finally spoke."Actually, there is something I could use your help with." she said, looking at the ground as she spoke.It was obvious that she was nervous, what could she possibly want help with, I wondered."Well, ya see, since my ankle was hurting so bad I couldn't take a shower earlier and I feel so nasty from sweating during practice, and I'm not supposed to put any weight on it. So, um, could you maybe help me get to the shower and make sure I don't fall?" she said, looking as innocent as possible.I could hardly believe what I'd just heard. I wanted to refuse, because I knew where this could potentially lead and I did not want to go through that kind of trouble again. But then again maybe I was jumping to conclusions, maybe she really did need help, after all she had just hurt her ankle."I don't know, Molly. Don't you think there's someone better you could ask, like another girl?" I said,"I would, but everyone else is asleep, you're the only person I know that stays up this late, and it's not like anyone will see us, everyone is sleeping after all and Danielle doesn't get back until much later when she goes out with her boyfriend. It'll be fine, plus I trust you not to peek, so what's the problem?" Molly replied.After thinking about it for a second, I realized that I was probably just reading too much into the whole thing, besides Molly most likely wasn't interested in me in that way, I was as you might say, in the friend zone."Okay, you make a valid point." I said."Great! Now if you would please help me back to my room so I can grab a towel and a change of clothes" she responded."Yeah, no problem," I said, letting her brace herself on my shoulder as I quietly helped her down the hall to her room.Once we got to her room I waited by the door as she quietly grabbed a towel and clothes from her dresser. We she finished I let her brace herself once more on my shoulder and helped her limp back down the hall to the showers."Thanks for doing this Alan." she said as we reached the bathroom."You're welcome." I replied.I stood with my back turned to her so I couldn't see as she braced herself on my shoulder to get undressed. And I assure you, the idea of an extremely attractive girl getting undressed right behind was certainly enough to get the blood flowing. I waited outside the stall while she showered, as she had requested, so I could help in case she fell.As thoughts of this hot naked girl showering right there near me flooded into my brain, I began to feel a slight stirring in my loins. I would have to be careful, to avoid her noticing. Although, as more thoughts flooded in, the ever increasing bulge in my pants was becoming much harder to conceal.Finally after about 15 minutes or so of waiting, I heard the water turn off. Molly reached her arm out from behind the curtain, so I handed her the towel she'd brought. Like before, I kept my back turned so I wouldn't see her when she came out of the stall. Then, I guess she underestimated how wet the floor was and only being on one foot had made it even more hazardous because as she exited the stall she slipped and began to fall. Having good reflexes, I instinctively turned around to grab her and prevent her from falling. But due to the awkward way in which she was falling, I slipped on the wet floor as well as I caught her. With a thud I had fallen onto my back and Molly had fallen on top of me. It took me all of a few seconds to realize that the towel she had wrapped around herself had come undone in the commotion, and she was now lying on top of me with her wet modest B-cup breasts pressed against my chest. The only thing between us was my thin t-shirt which was now wet from her body."Oh shit, are you okay Alan?" she asked."Yeah, are you okay" I asked in return."I'm good, because you caught me, thanks for that by the way." she replied, giving me a quick peck on the cheek, seeing as our faces were just inches apart anyways.I had no time to think about the kiss on the cheek, however small it was, because that's about the time I realized that her thigh was pressed right up against my crotch. She without a doubt could feel the rock hard bulge against her thigh, I was terrified. I then felt her nipples begin to harden against my chest as we just stared each other in the eye in complete silence. Then without warning Molly leaned her face down and kissed me on the lips. In that instant every bit of resolve I had to not make those same old mistakes had crumbled. Without even thinking about it I began to kiss her soft supple lips back. We kissed there on the floor for almost a minute before Molly broke our kiss."I've waited so long to do that." Molly said, staring me in the eyes once more.Wow, I thought, she was waiting to kiss me? I could see immediately that Molly had a fire in her eyes, and judging by the rigidity of nipples and her slight breathlessness, I could tell she was just as turned on as I was.To be continued.By Cheat105 for Literotica.

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Alan is the only guy in an all-girls school.By Cheat105. Listen to the Podcast at Explicit Novels.Hello, my name is Alan and through some strange twist of fate at age 18 I ended up the only boy in an all-girls school for my senior year. Now I understand, to most guys the idea of being surrounded by hot girls every day sounds like a dream come true, but being a teenage boy I was basically a walking hard on, which was like torture. How did I end up in this place? Well, long story short I got into some trouble and was kicked out of my old school and my mother who was the headmistress at Redwood Academy for Girls, pulled some strings and exceptions were made, so I got transferred here. It’s a little hard to explain and I don’t know all the details myself. The school didn't want to lose their head mistress, so a probationary enrollment was authorized by the regents.Now growing up in a family with only my mother, my sister, my aunt, and my 2 female cousins, I was used to being around women. My father had split when I was young and my aunt’s husband had split too, which I’m quite sure left them feeling a bit jaded towards men. But despite their feelings toward men, they always treated me very well, so I never felt unloved or anything. Well that was until I became a teenager and started getting into trouble. Then I suppose the recent trouble with my school was the last straw and despite my mother going out on a limb to get me transferred to Redwood she seemed to act rather cold towards me, and I got a similar treatment from the rest of the family.On my first day in the new school, I was introduced by the teachers in all my classes and let’s just say the reception was a little less than warm. Some girls looked at me curiously, clearly fascinated by the situation. But most of the girls met me with cold stares, quite obviously not happy about me, a guy being allowed in their school. And honestly, who could blame them? I didn’t even try to make an effort to fit in, hell I didn’t even wear the school uniform, right. The uniform which consisted of a gray blazer with school seal sewn onto the breast, a navy blue knit vest sweater, a white button down formal shirt, a tie, a pleated wool skirt or navy slacks, and brown leather dress shoes. The proper way to wear the uniform was the blazer closed with the three buttons going down the bottom half, white dress shirt tucked in and buttoned all the way up, and the tie done in your typical Windsor knot. (Being a male, the tie part only applied to me, the females had ties too but not the same as a men’s tie. And I was forbidden to wear a skirt.)Anyways, having always hated dressing up; I walked into that school with the blazer unbuttoned and open, the white shirt only half-way tucked in with the top few buttons undone and the tie was half-assed at best. Not to mention my unkempt medium length brown hair and the unshaven stubble on my face. From the second I stepped foot on that campus most everyone looked at me like some kind of delinquent. And by the time I was being introduced in my classes, word had already gotten around that the new male student was a delinquent and somehow they even got the idea that I’m some kind of pervert. I’ll concede the delinquent part, but a pervert? That frustrated me.There are probably some well-adjusted girls in this academy, but a bunch of the chicks are either man-haters, lesbians, phobic of all things male, or just generally snobs. Testosterone is regarded as a toxic and harmful scourge on half of the world's population, and responsible for the bulk of crime, violence, war, and the suppression of the enlightened feminine half of the world. The sociology department faculty advances these beliefs and even advocates such bigoted attitudes in their lectures. If a girl wasn't already a sexist bigot when she got there, she likely graduated as a fully converted bitch.When the first day of classes ended, I walked alone to the student dorms. I was supposed to be meeting with the RA concerning my living situation on campus. The campus was huge, countless classrooms and other facilities, three separate dorms each with their own cafeterias and rec rooms. It’s really a miracle I didn’t get lost. I got to the dorms and found the RA in her office. I noticed immediately that she was an attractive woman. She looked to be maybe in her late 20s to early 30s.“Alan Reynolds?” she asked.“Yeah,” I said.“Right. Well hello, I’m Danielle. I’m the resident assistant of these dorms. Go ahead and take a seat.” she said, gesturing to a chair sitting in front of her desk.I took a seat while she turned her attention back to the computer sitting on her desk.“I’ll assign you a room here in a bit, but first I need to go over the rules with you. As you can imagine the situation is a bit unprecedented.” she said turning her attention to me.I just nodded my head.“First off, we don’t have any designated men’s facilities in the dorms. So we’ve had to make some new rules for the bathrooms and showers. I’ve made up a schedule for when you can use the showers; when nobody else is using them. As for the restrooms, since that obviously can’t be scheduled, you’ll have to use one of the guest restrooms on the main campus.” she said, handing me a piece of paper with a list of times that I can use the showers.“That’s fine.” I said, but thinking differently. Wonderful, I thought, this is basically like a fucking prison, scheduled showers? Fuck.I mean, I understood the reasoning, but it still bothered me none the less.“Good” she said, with a smile. “If you’ll follow me, I’ll show you to your room.” she added while standing up from her desk.I followed her out of her office and walked with her as she continued telling me about the dorm, the cafeteria, rec room, etc. She showed me to my room at the near end of the hall.“For obvious reasons, you’ll be given your own room. All students are expected to be in their rooms with lights out at 10pm. If you need anything, just ask, you know where my office is. Since your assigned room is near the stairs and shower room, you'll have to answer for any time you're seen further down the hall, or on any other residential floor. Several parents are not happy that a guy is in their daughter's school, so we've made a strong commitment to them that we would step up the monitoring of your presence.” she said handing me the room key before walking away.I entered my room and took a look around. There were 2 beds, 2 dressers, 2 desks, and a pretty sizable closet that was clearly built for 2. Looking around at all the extra furnishings really hammered home how lonely my life would be at this school. Then again, I suppose having my own room was better than having to share like all the other students. I set my book bag down next to the desk and took a seat on the bed, luckily the bed was at least plenty comfortable, but I would need to get sheets, pillows, and blankets. However all of my stuff was out in mom’s car, so I would have to go see her before the day was over.I got up and left my room, shutting the door and locking it behind me. I walked through the hall of the dorm, ignoring the stares from the girls. I made my way out of the dorm and onto the main campus. I was headed to the headmistress’s office, my mom’s office. When I got to the building where her office was located I walked in and found mom’s office, the door was open so I didn’t bother knocking or talking to her secretary.“Mom,” I said, to get her attention as she was busy working at her desk.“I have a secretary for a reason, you know.” she said, not even looking up from her work.She’s been rather cold and distant like this ever since the trouble with my old school, so this was no surprise.“I hardly think I need to ask a secretary to speak to my mother.” I countered.“Very well, what do you need? I’m busy.” she responded.“I need to get my stuff out of your car.” I said.Mom then reached down to her purse on the floor beside her and grabbed her keys from one of the pockets. And she finally looked up from her work at me when she handed me the keys.“Fix your uniform, Alan. And please get a haircut and shave. Try to make yourself presentable.” she said before turning her attention back to her work.I didn’t say anything more. I just stuffed the keys in my pocket and walked out of her office. Strangely enough it felt good that she acknowledged my improper wear of the uniform, it seems to have been the most attention she’s paid to me in a long while. I walked out to the parking lot where mom’s car was parked. I had a couple of boxes and bags, too much to carry all the way to the dorms, so I just drove the car over to the dorms and parked outside. I then got out and grabbed my two large duffel bags from the backseat and began carrying them to my room. I made note of the audience of girls watching me as I carried my bags. I dropped my bags off in my room, then made my way back out to the car. I popped the trunk and as I looked in the trunk to get my remaining boxes, I heard a female voice from behind me.“Hey, you’re the new male student, right? Alan’s your name?” the female voice asked.“Huh? Oh yeah,” I said, turning around slightly startled.The voice had come from a pretty attractive brunette with green eyes. I couldn’t tell much else about her due to the restrictive school uniform, but she had a light tan and stood about 5 foot 6. I remembered her from one of my morning classes. She’s one of the few girls who didn’t look at me with disgust. I also quickly noticed the number of girls outside the dorm who were giving me the stink eye as this girl spoke to me. And she must’ve noticed too.“Oh don’t worry about any of them. Most of them are just uppity bitches who are just jealous that their boyfriends aren’t allowed on campus and you were.” she said, looking around at the other girls.Wow, I thought, this girl just calls it how she sees it. It was a breath of fresh air to be sure.“Anyways, you need some help carrying those boxes? Oh I’m Molly, by the way. Nice to meet you.” she said with a smile and a cute giggle, reaching out her hand for a handshake.“Uh yeah, nice to meet you, I’m Alan.” I said, taking her petite hand in mine and shaking it.“Yeah, I know. Everyone knows your name,” she said with a another cute giggle.“Oh, right.” I said, with a nervous smile as I scratched the back of my head.“You want some help? I can carry one of those for ya.” she said, easing the nervous tension with a smile.“Oh, um yeah. Thanks.” I said, handing her the lighter of the two boxes.“No problem.” she said, as we began walking with the boxes to my room.Once we got to my room with the boxes I set them on the floor in my room, while Molly waited in the hall.“Thanks for the help.” I said, meeting her back out in the hall.“It was no problem. And it was nice meeting you. Come talk to me sometime. I’ll be eating dinner in the cafeteria around 6 if you wanted to come sit with me,” she said with that same cute smile from before.“Uh, yeah, I may do that.” I said.With that she walked away. Meanwhile I headed back out to mom’s car, so I could return it to her parking space. I drove the car back across campus as I thought about the girl. She was nice, and quite pretty. I would for sure take her up on her offer to eat with her. After all, I was getting pretty hungry. I parked mom’s car back in her spot and then brought her keys back to her. I didn’t bother to say anything to her, nor her to me. I just dropped the keys off and continued on my way to the dorms.Back in my room I checked the time, it was only about 5. That Molly girl had said she would be getting dinner around 6, so I had an hour to kill. I decided to go ahead and unpack my things, my casual clothes I put in the dresser, and I had a few spare uniforms that I hung in the closet. I unpacked my computer from one of the boxes and set it up on the desk. In the other box was some sheets, a blanket, and a couple of pillows, I made up my bed and by the time I’d finished unpacking it was nearly 6.I left my room and headed to the cafeteria. I grabbed a plate of food and looked for a place to sit. I quickly noticed Molly. She was sitting by herself. So I walked over and sat across from her.“Hey, I was wondering if you were coming.” she said, greeting me.“Yeah I got hungry.” I said, as I began to eat.“Did you get everything unpacked okay?” she asked, looking up from her own food.“Yeah,” I said.We continued our small talk like that for a little while. She asked how I ended up in this school. I didn’t tell her the whole truth, only that I had gotten in trouble at my last school and they gave me the boot. I could tell she was still curious and wanted the whole story, but she didn’t press thankfully. As we continued talking, 3 girls walked up to the table, I prepared myself to be insulted by them, but no insults came.“Hey Molly!” the 3 girls said in unison.“Hey guys, have a seat.” Molly replied.I deduced that they were friends of Molly.“So who’s the guy?” one girl asked Molly.“This is the new student, Alan.” Molly replied.“Oh, so this is the male student I’ve been hearing about all day. Well, I’m Katie.” the same girl responded.“And I’m Amanda.” one of the others chimed in.“I’m Erin.” the last one added.They all had friendly smiles as they introduced themselves.“Oh. Well, as Molly said, I’m Alan. It’s nice to meet all of you.” I said, returning their friendly smiles.“We’re all on the volleyball team together.” Molly said.“Oh cool, I didn’t even know this place has a volleyball team.” I said.“Well, you probably don’t know much about this place, do ya?” Katie said, with a giggle.“I know, look at the way he wears the uniform.” Amanda chimed in with a laugh, pointing at my disheveled appearance, the other girls let out a laugh as well.“Ah well, you know, just thought I’d make a fashion statement.” I said, try my hand at some humor and all 5 of us began laughing.We all sat there talking and laughing for a few minutes when I decided to check the time. It was nearly 8:30, which was one of my scheduled shower times.“Well ladies, I do hate to cut this short but I gotta get going. I’ll talk to y'all some other time.” I said, before getting up.The girls all said goodbye, then I left. I quickly went back to my room, grabbed a towel, a change of clothes, along with a toothbrush and toothpaste, shampoo, and bodywash then went to the showers. The showers were empty as expected, Danielle, the RA, had already gone over this schedule with all the girls living in the dorm. I set my towel and clothes on the counter and put my shampoo, bodywash, etc. in one of the shower stalls. I then quickly removed my clothing and got in the shower. It felt good standing under the relaxing cascade of hot water after such a long and stressful day. But as I had only been allotted 15 minutes in the shower, I couldn’t relax too much. So I brushed my teeth quickly then washed my hair and body afterward. I then got out of the shower and began drying off. I put on a clean pair of boxers and athletic shorts I’d brought with me. I didn’t think to grab a shirt to take to the bathroom, besides the shower was just down the hall from me, so being shirtless for a few seconds wouldn’t hurt. I grabbed my dirty clothes, towel, and hygiene products and left the showers.As I walked out into the hall, I noticed almost immediately that there were several girls out in the hall and they were staring at me, well my shirtless torso to be more precise. Now look, I’m not a muscle-bound meathead by any means, but I did have some decent muscles and noticeable abs from working out and stood at about 6'0. Plus, coming from a family of naturally attractive people, I was at least reasonably handsome myself, or so I’ve been told. I was just glad the girls weren’t staring at me in disgust for once, so I didn’t mind the attention as I walked back to my room.Back in my room I put my dirty clothes in my laundry bag, then sat at my desk and turned on my computer. Luckily the dorms all had Wi-Fi so I was able to connect to the internet. I decided to check my Facebook to see what my old friends were up to. I saw that I had received friend requests from Molly, Katie, Amanda, and Erin. I accepted the friend requests then signed out of Facebook. I then turned on some music and went over to my bed to lie down.I laid in bed listening to music and I thought about the day’s events. At first I dreaded having to go this school, but the first day wasn’t actually so bad, I did at least manage to meet a few intriguing girls. What an attractive group of girls, I thought. They were all seniors, like me, except they were actually supposed to be in this school, unlike me. Katie had dirty blonde hair that stopped just below her jawline and hazel eyes, she was certainly shorter and more petite than the other girls, standing about 5 foot zero, but had the more outgoing personality. Amanda had shoulder length flaxen blonde hair and light blue eyes, she had without a doubt the more curvy body type, her ample bust was noticeable even under that restrictive school uniform, and she’s about 5 foot 5. Erin had long dark almost black hair and brown eyes, I’d say she was the most average of the group, she stood about 5 foot 3 and while the other girls all had light tans of varying tones, Erin’s skin was a bit paler, not ghost white or anything but not tan either. Don’t get me wrong, Erin was plenty attractive too, she just didn’t stick out like the other girls did. Plus, she seemed to have a more reserved personality.Being a teenage boy with raging hormones, I immediately began to think about whether I had a shot with any of these girls. But then I remembered how I ended up in this school and realized I should just suppress my own urges and forget about it, lest I get kicked out of this school as well. You see, that trouble I got into at my old school, it was those very same hormones. Those damned accursed hormones that led me astray. Long story short, I got caught having sex with a female student in the girl’s bathroom. Then as if that alone wasn’t bad enough, the girl’s parents tried to say I forced her to have sex with me and threatened to get the law involved. In the end they got a restraining order against me, I was banned from ever setting foot on the school’s property, and I was forced to leave the county completely. No one believed for a second that I was innocent and the girl’s parents had pressured her to keep quiet, all of my friends stopped talking to me and even my own family began ignoring me. The whole matter got swept under the rug, but the damage was done. My mother, left with no options pulled some strings to get me into Redwood Academy for Girls, and trust me I see the irony in that, considering my supposed crime. I just want to set the record straight, I have never nor would I ever pressure a girl into sex.Needless to say, the whole incident had a lasting effect on me. I couldn’t so much as look at a girl without getting nervous now. I guess subconsciously the only thing I could think about was what all could go wrong, that history would repeat itself and I would end up in the exact same kind of situation that got me here in the first place. So I resolved to keep my hormone in check. I should just focus on my education, I told myself, and getting my family to forgive me. The latter would be much easier said than done. I still remember what my mother said to me after the incident, she looked at me with cold eyes and said: “I guess you’re no different than any other man. I’m so disappointed in you.” Her words cut me like a knife, and after a while I stopped trying to plead my innocence to her. I was depressed most of the time, constantly questioning why the girl wouldn’t just come clean, wondering why her parents had such an axe to grind, after all it was just a couple of horny teenagers doing what horny teenagers do. But most of all what bothered me was that my own family had never even stopped to hear my side of the story.Anyways back to the story, I was laying in my bed listening to music, thinking about the past. I was feeling pretty shitty, when suddenly I got a notification on my phone, the short ringing sound drew me out my own head and I checked my smart phone to see what it was. It was a notification of a Facebook message from Molly.It read: “Hey, I see you accepted my friend request. Here’s my cell number, text me sometime.”I immediately forgot about my sorrows as I read her message. I know I had resolved to keep my hormones in check, but what harm could come from just talking to a girl? So I saved the attached number to my phone, then proceeded to send a text.Me: Hey, it’s Alan. I just got your message.Molly: Great! And now I’ve got your number, I hope you don’t mind if I give it to Katie, Amanda, and Erin.Me: No, that’s fine.Molly: Awesome. So what ya up to?Me: Just lying in bed listening to music til I get tired, probably go to sleep here in a few minutes.Molly: Yeah same here. Hey, text me tomorrow and we’ll meet up for breakfast. Goodnight!Me: Will do. Goodnight.With that I turned off my phone and plugged it into the charger, then went over to my computer and shut it down. I lay back down in my bed and closed my eyes to go to sleep. My first day was finally over, and all in all it hadn’t been so bad. I met several girls who were nice and fun to be around. Maybe this school wouldn’t be so bad after all, I thought as I fell asleep.Over the next few weeks, I talked to Molly and the other 3 girls quite a bit, and we all were getting along pretty well. I was beginning to enjoy this new school I had been dreading at first. I was actually having fun. Sure, there were still plenty of other girls around school that would shoot me the stink eye anytime they saw me and they would even direct their looks towards Molly, Katie, Amanda, and Erin when we were spending time together. Anytime we had free time the 5 of us would hang out, sometimes we would even leave the school campus to go into the city and catch a movie, visit shops, or grab a bite to eat when we got tired of eating at school. Molly and I had especially gotten closer, we would talk with and/or text each other most every day. We’d gotten to where we talked about most everything with each other, no matter how personal. We trusted each other implicitly. But the one thing I could never bring myself to tell her was about the trouble at my old school, I wanted to avoid reliving those sour memories at all costs, I would take them to my grave if possible. Also I just didn’t want her to think less of me, even though I was sure she may be the only person who would believe my side of the story, I still couldn’t bring myself to talk about it. And even though I was certain I was beginning to fall this girl. I could never make a move. My past still haunted me and prevented me from doing so.Anyways volleyball season was just about to start so that meant the girls wouldn’t have as much free time anymore because they would be busy practicing. Luckily Molly and the girls invited me to come watch their practices anytime I wanted. So when I got done with classes for the day I would go sit in the gym bleachers and do my homework as I watched them practice, which served as good entertainment, but also good eye candy as often times the girls would practice in just their sports bras and short tight athletic shorts. It was almost as if they forgot there was a hormonal teenage guy sitting in the bleachers watching them, or they just didn’t care. Either way it provided me the opportunity to get a better look at their bodies. But anytime I found myself staring for too long, I would have to reprimand myself, after all I had promised myself I wouldn’t get into the same situation that landed me in so much trouble at my old school. I told myself it was okay to look, but I mustn’t try to take it any further than that. No matter how beautiful these girls were, I had to fight my urges. I could not afford to screw this up. Little did I know, on one particular day I would soon find myself embroiled in a similar set of circumstances but with a very different outcome.Said day was a Wednesday. Practice had been cut short because Molly had rolled her ankle trying to go for a save. It wasn’t severe or anything, and wouldn’t inhibit her from playing in the upcoming first match, but the coach had told her to stay off it for a few days. After the practice was cut short that evening Amanda and I helped Molly walk by letting her brace herself on our shoulders. We first went to the cafeteria for a quick meal, then we helped her to her dorm room. That’s where we parted ways and I went to my room, where I relaxed on my bed with some music playing on my computer. It was just past curfew when I heard a knock at my door. I got up walked over to the door wondering who could be visiting so late. I opened the door and to my surprise it was Molly, still in her practice clothes.“Molly, what the hell? I thought you were supposed to stay off that ankle?” I said in shock. “Not only that, do you know how late it is?” I continued.“I know. Look can I come in and sit for a bit?” she said with pain in her face and voice.“Um, okay, sure” I nervously said, I couldn’t in good conscience just make her limp all the way back to her room.“Don’t worry, my roomie is sleeping and everyone else in their rooms, so no one saw me.” she said, as I helped her over to the chair at my desk, shutting the door behind her and making one last check that nobody saw.“Okay, but what about Danielle? What happens when she does her nightly room checks?” I said, worried that the RA could pop in at any second and get the wrong idea about why Molly was in my room.“Oh, she’s out with her boyfriend tonight. She won’t be back til late. But that’s a secret, so shush, don’t tell nobody.” she replied with a giggle. “Seriously, don’t tell anyone, she could lose her job.” Molly stopped laughing.“Ok. So what’s up?” I asked, still confused as to why Molly was in my room.“Well I tried to sleep but this damn ankle hurts so bad. After awhile I got bored and wanted someone to talk to. Seeing as my roomie is sleeping and I knew you would still be up, I just decided to come see you.” Molly replied, flashing that same cute smile that I had become entranced by on many occasions.“Damn, I had no idea it hurt that bad, tough break, I’m sorry. Let me know if there’s anything I can do.” I said, showing real concern.After a pause, as though she were mulling it over, she finally spoke.“Actually, there is something I could use your help with.” she said, looking at the ground as she spoke.It was obvious that she was nervous, what could she possibly want help with, I wondered.“Well, ya see, since my ankle was hurting so bad I couldn’t take a shower earlier and I feel so nasty from sweating during practice, and I’m not supposed to put any weight on it. So, um, could you maybe help me get to the shower and make sure I don’t fall?” she said, looking as innocent as possible.I could hardly believe what I’d just heard. I wanted to refuse, because I knew where this could potentially lead and I did not want to go through that kind of trouble again. But then again maybe I was jumping to conclusions, maybe she really did need help, after all she had just hurt her ankle.“I don’t know, Molly. Don’t you think there’s someone better you could ask, like another girl?” I said,“I would, but everyone else is asleep, you’re the only person I know that stays up this late, and it’s not like anyone will see us, everyone is sleeping after all and Danielle doesn’t get back until much later when she goes out with her boyfriend. It’ll be fine, plus I trust you not to peek, so what’s the problem?” Molly replied.After thinking about it for a second, I realized that I was probably just reading too much into the whole thing, besides Molly most likely wasn’t interested in me in that way, I was as you might say, in the friend zone.“Okay, you make a valid point.” I said.“Great! Now if you would please help me back to my room so I can grab a towel and a change of clothes” she responded.“Yeah, no problem,” I said, letting her brace herself on my shoulder as I quietly helped her down the hall to her room.Once we got to her room I waited by the door as she quietly grabbed a towel and clothes from her dresser. We she finished I let her brace herself once more on my shoulder and helped her limp back down the hall to the showers.“Thanks for doing this Alan.” she said as we reached the bathroom.“You’re welcome.” I replied.I stood with my back turned to her so I couldn’t see as she braced herself on my shoulder to get undressed. And I assure you, the idea of an extremely attractive girl getting undressed right behind was certainly enough to get the blood flowing. I waited outside the stall while she showered, as she had requested, so I could help in case she fell.As thoughts of this hot naked girl showering right there near me flooded into my brain, I began to feel a slight stirring in my loins. I would have to be careful, to avoid her noticing. Although, as more thoughts flooded in, the ever increasing bulge in my pants was becoming much harder to conceal.Finally after about 15 minutes or so of waiting, I heard the water turn off. Molly reached her arm out from behind the curtain, so I handed her the towel she’d brought. Like before, I kept my back turned so I wouldn’t see her when she came out of the stall. Then, I guess she underestimated how wet the floor was and only being on one foot had made it even more hazardous because as she exited the stall she slipped and began to fall. Having good reflexes, I instinctively turned around to grab her and prevent her from falling. But due to the awkward way in which she was falling, I slipped on the wet floor as well as I caught her. With a thud I had fallen onto my back and Molly had fallen on top of me. It took me all of a few seconds to realize that the towel she had wrapped around herself had come undone in the commotion, and she was now lying on top of me with her wet modest B-cup breasts pressed against my chest. The only thing between us was my thin t-shirt which was now wet from her body.“Oh shit, are you okay Alan?” she asked.“Yeah, are you okay” I asked in return.“I’m good, because you caught me, thanks for that by the way.” she replied, giving me a quick peck on the cheek, seeing as our faces were just inches apart anyways.I had no time to think about the kiss on the cheek, however small it was, because that’s about the time I realized that her thigh was pressed right up against my crotch. She without a doubt could feel the rock hard bulge against her thigh, I was terrified. I then felt her nipples begin to harden against my chest as we just stared each other in the eye in complete silence. Then without warning Molly leaned her face down and kissed me on the lips. In that instant every bit of resolve I had to not make those same old mistakes had crumbled. Without even thinking about it I began to kiss her soft supple lips back. We kissed there on the floor for almost a minute before Molly broke our kiss.“I’ve waited so long to do that.” Molly said, staring me in the eyes once more.Wow, I thought, she was waiting to kiss me? I could see immediately that Molly had a fire in her eyes, and judging by the rigidity of nipples and her slight breathlessness, I could tell she was just as turned on as I was.To be continued.By Cheat105 for Literotica.

Alan is the only guy in an all-girls school.By Cheat105. Listen to the Podcast at Explicit Novels.Hello, my name is Alan and through some strange twist of fate at age 18 I ended up the only boy in an all-girls school for my senior year. Now I understand, to most guys the idea of being surrounded by hot girls every day sounds like a dream come true, but being a teenage boy I was basically a walking hard on, which was like torture. How did I end up in this place? Well, long story short I got into some trouble and was kicked out of my old school and my mother who was the headmistress at Redwood Academy for Girls, pulled some strings and exceptions were made, so I got transferred here. It’s a little hard to explain and I don’t know all the details myself. The school didn't want to lose their head mistress, so a probationary enrollment was authorized by the regents.Now growing up in a family with only my mother, my sister, my aunt, and my 2 female cousins, I was used to being around women. My father had split when I was young and my aunt’s husband had split too, which I’m quite sure left them feeling a bit jaded towards men. But despite their feelings toward men, they always treated me very well, so I never felt unloved or anything. Well that was until I became a teenager and started getting into trouble. Then I suppose the recent trouble with my school was the last straw and despite my mother going out on a limb to get me transferred to Redwood she seemed to act rather cold towards me, and I got a similar treatment from the rest of the family.On my first day in the new school, I was introduced by the teachers in all my classes and let’s just say the reception was a little less than warm. Some girls looked at me curiously, clearly fascinated by the situation. But most of the girls met me with cold stares, quite obviously not happy about me, a guy being allowed in their school. And honestly, who could blame them? I didn’t even try to make an effort to fit in, hell I didn’t even wear the school uniform, right. The uniform which consisted of a gray blazer with school seal sewn onto the breast, a navy blue knit vest sweater, a white button down formal shirt, a tie, a pleated wool skirt or navy slacks, and brown leather dress shoes. The proper way to wear the uniform was the blazer closed with the three buttons going down the bottom half, white dress shirt tucked in and buttoned all the way up, and the tie done in your typical Windsor knot. (Being a male, the tie part only applied to me, the females had ties too but not the same as a men’s tie. And I was forbidden to wear a skirt.)Anyways, having always hated dressing up; I walked into that school with the blazer unbuttoned and open, the white shirt only half-way tucked in with the top few buttons undone and the tie was half-assed at best. Not to mention my unkempt medium length brown hair and the unshaven stubble on my face. From the second I stepped foot on that campus most everyone looked at me like some kind of delinquent. And by the time I was being introduced in my classes, word had already gotten around that the new male student was a delinquent and somehow they even got the idea that I’m some kind of pervert. I’ll concede the delinquent part, but a pervert? That frustrated me.There are probably some well-adjusted girls in this academy, but a bunch of the chicks are either man-haters, lesbians, phobic of all things male, or just generally snobs. Testosterone is regarded as a toxic and harmful scourge on half of the world's population, and responsible for the bulk of crime, violence, war, and the suppression of the enlightened feminine half of the world. The sociology department faculty advances these beliefs and even advocates such bigoted attitudes in their lectures. If a girl wasn't already a sexist bigot when she got there, she likely graduated as a fully converted bitch.When the first day of classes ended, I walked alone to the student dorms. I was supposed to be meeting with the RA concerning my living situation on campus. The campus was huge, countless classrooms and other facilities, three separate dorms each with their own cafeterias and rec rooms. It’s really a miracle I didn’t get lost. I got to the dorms and found the RA in her office. I noticed immediately that she was an attractive woman. She looked to be maybe in her late 20s to early 30s.“Alan Reynolds?” she asked.“Yeah,” I said.“Right. Well hello, I’m Danielle. I’m the resident assistant of these dorms. Go ahead and take a seat.” she said, gesturing to a chair sitting in front of her desk.I took a seat while she turned her attention back to the computer sitting on her desk.“I’ll assign you a room here in a bit, but first I need to go over the rules with you. As you can imagine the situation is a bit unprecedented.” she said turning her attention to me.I just nodded my head.“First off, we don’t have any designated men’s facilities in the dorms. So we’ve had to make some new rules for the bathrooms and showers. I’ve made up a schedule for when you can use the showers; when nobody else is using them. As for the restrooms, since that obviously can’t be scheduled, you’ll have to use one of the guest restrooms on the main campus.” she said, handing me a piece of paper with a list of times that I can use the showers.“That’s fine.” I said, but thinking differently. Wonderful, I thought, this is basically like a fucking prison, scheduled showers? Fuck.I mean, I understood the reasoning, but it still bothered me none the less.“Good” she said, with a smile. “If you’ll follow me, I’ll show you to your room.” she added while standing up from her desk.I followed her out of her office and walked with her as she continued telling me about the dorm, the cafeteria, rec room, etc. She showed me to my room at the near end of the hall.“For obvious reasons, you’ll be given your own room. All students are expected to be in their rooms with lights out at 10pm. If you need anything, just ask, you know where my office is. Since your assigned room is near the stairs and shower room, you'll have to answer for any time you're seen further down the hall, or on any other residential floor. Several parents are not happy that a guy is in their daughter's school, so we've made a strong commitment to them that we would step up the monitoring of your presence.” she said handing me the room key before walking away.I entered my room and took a look around. There were 2 beds, 2 dressers, 2 desks, and a pretty sizable closet that was clearly built for 2. Looking around at all the extra furnishings really hammered home how lonely my life would be at this school. Then again, I suppose having my own room was better than having to share like all the other students. I set my book bag down next to the desk and took a seat on the bed, luckily the bed was at least plenty comfortable, but I would need to get sheets, pillows, and blankets. However all of my stuff was out in mom’s car, so I would have to go see her before the day was over.I got up and left my room, shutting the door and locking it behind me. I walked through the hall of the dorm, ignoring the stares from the girls. I made my way out of the dorm and onto the main campus. I was headed to the headmistress’s office, my mom’s office. When I got to the building where her office was located I walked in and found mom’s office, the door was open so I didn’t bother knocking or talking to her secretary.“Mom,” I said, to get her attention as she was busy working at her desk.“I have a secretary for a reason, you know.” she said, not even looking up from her work.She’s been rather cold and distant like this ever since the trouble with my old school, so this was no surprise.“I hardly think I need to ask a secretary to speak to my mother.” I countered.“Very well, what do you need? I’m busy.” she responded.“I need to get my stuff out of your car.” I said.Mom then reached down to her purse on the floor beside her and grabbed her keys from one of the pockets. And she finally looked up from her work at me when she handed me the keys.“Fix your uniform, Alan. And please get a haircut and shave. Try to make yourself presentable.” she said before turning her attention back to her work.I didn’t say anything more. I just stuffed the keys in my pocket and walked out of her office. Strangely enough it felt good that she acknowledged my improper wear of the uniform, it seems to have been the most attention she’s paid to me in a long while. I walked out to the parking lot where mom’s car was parked. I had a couple of boxes and bags, too much to carry all the way to the dorms, so I just drove the car over to the dorms and parked outside. I then got out and grabbed my two large duffel bags from the backseat and began carrying them to my room. I made note of the audience of girls watching me as I carried my bags. I dropped my bags off in my room, then made my way back out to the car. I popped the trunk and as I looked in the trunk to get my remaining boxes, I heard a female voice from behind me.“Hey, you’re the new male student, right? Alan’s your name?” the female voice asked.“Huh? Oh yeah,” I said, turning around slightly startled.The voice had come from a pretty attractive brunette with green eyes. I couldn’t tell much else about her due to the restrictive school uniform, but she had a light tan and stood about 5 foot 6. I remembered her from one of my morning classes. She’s one of the few girls who didn’t look at me with disgust. I also quickly noticed the number of girls outside the dorm who were giving me the stink eye as this girl spoke to me. And she must’ve noticed too.“Oh don’t worry about any of them. Most of them are just uppity bitches who are just jealous that their boyfriends aren’t allowed on campus and you were.” she said, looking around at the other girls.Wow, I thought, this girl just calls it how she sees it. It was a breath of fresh air to be sure.“Anyways, you need some help carrying those boxes? Oh I’m Molly, by the way. Nice to meet you.” she said with a smile and a cute giggle, reaching out her hand for a handshake.“Uh yeah, nice to meet you, I’m Alan.” I said, taking her petite hand in mine and shaking it.“Yeah, I know. Everyone knows your name,” she said with a another cute giggle.“Oh, right.” I said, with a nervous smile as I scratched the back of my head.“You want some help? I can carry one of those for ya.” she said, easing the nervous tension with a smile.“Oh, um yeah. Thanks.” I said, handing her the lighter of the two boxes.“No problem.” she said, as we began walking with the boxes to my room.Once we got to my room with the boxes I set them on the floor in my room, while Molly waited in the hall.“Thanks for the help.” I said, meeting her back out in the hall.“It was no problem. And it was nice meeting you. Come talk to me sometime. I’ll be eating dinner in the cafeteria around 6 if you wanted to come sit with me,” she said with that same cute smile from before.“Uh, yeah, I may do that.” I said.With that she walked away. Meanwhile I headed back out to mom’s car, so I could return it to her parking space. I drove the car back across campus as I thought about the girl. She was nice, and quite pretty. I would for sure take her up on her offer to eat with her. After all, I was getting pretty hungry. I parked mom’s car back in her spot and then brought her keys back to her. I didn’t bother to say anything to her, nor her to me. I just dropped the keys off and continued on my way to the dorms.Back in my room I checked the time, it was only about 5. That Molly girl had said she would be getting dinner around 6, so I had an hour to kill. I decided to go ahead and unpack my things, my casual clothes I put in the dresser, and I had a few spare uniforms that I hung in the closet. I unpacked my computer from one of the boxes and set it up on the desk. In the other box was some sheets, a blanket, and a couple of pillows, I made up my bed and by the time I’d finished unpacking it was nearly 6.I left my room and headed to the cafeteria. I grabbed a plate of food and looked for a place to sit. I quickly noticed Molly. She was sitting by herself. So I walked over and sat across from her.“Hey, I was wondering if you were coming.” she said, greeting me.“Yeah I got hungry.” I said, as I began to eat.“Did you get everything unpacked okay?” she asked, looking up from her own food.“Yeah,” I said.We continued our small talk like that for a little while. She asked how I ended up in this school. I didn’t tell her the whole truth, only that I had gotten in trouble at my last school and they gave me the boot. I could tell she was still curious and wanted the whole story, but she didn’t press thankfully. As we continued talking, 3 girls walked up to the table, I prepared myself to be insulted by them, but no insults came.“Hey Molly!” the 3 girls said in unison.“Hey guys, have a seat.” Molly replied.I deduced that they were friends of Molly.“So who’s the guy?” one girl asked Molly.“This is the new student, Alan.” Molly replied.“Oh, so this is the male student I’ve been hearing about all day. Well, I’m Katie.” the same girl responded.“And I’m Amanda.” one of the others chimed in.“I’m Erin.” the last one added.They all had friendly smiles as they introduced themselves.“Oh. Well, as Molly said, I’m Alan. It’s nice to meet all of you.” I said, returning their friendly smiles.“We’re all on the volleyball team together.” Molly said.“Oh cool, I didn’t even know this place has a volleyball team.” I said.“Well, you probably don’t know much about this place, do ya?” Katie said, with a giggle.“I know, look at the way he wears the uniform.” Amanda chimed in with a laugh, pointing at my disheveled appearance, the other girls let out a laugh as well.“Ah well, you know, just thought I’d make a fashion statement.” I said, try my hand at some humor and all 5 of us began laughing.We all sat there talking and laughing for a few minutes when I decided to check the time. It was nearly 8:30, which was one of my scheduled shower times.“Well ladies, I do hate to cut this short but I gotta get going. I’ll talk to y'all some other time.” I said, before getting up.The girls all said goodbye, then I left. I quickly went back to my room, grabbed a towel, a change of clothes, along with a toothbrush and toothpaste, shampoo, and bodywash then went to the showers. The showers were empty as expected, Danielle, the RA, had already gone over this schedule with all the girls living in the dorm. I set my towel and clothes on the counter and put my shampoo, bodywash, etc. in one of the shower stalls. I then quickly removed my clothing and got in the shower. It felt good standing under the relaxing cascade of hot water after such a long and stressful day. But as I had only been allotted 15 minutes in the shower, I couldn’t relax too much. So I brushed my teeth quickly then washed my hair and body afterward. I then got out of the shower and began drying off. I put on a clean pair of boxers and athletic shorts I’d brought with me. I didn’t think to grab a shirt to take to the bathroom, besides the shower was just down the hall from me, so being shirtless for a few seconds wouldn’t hurt. I grabbed my dirty clothes, towel, and hygiene products and left the showers.As I walked out into the hall, I noticed almost immediately that there were several girls out in the hall and they were staring at me, well my shirtless torso to be more precise. Now look, I’m not a muscle-bound meathead by any means, but I did have some decent muscles and noticeable abs from working out and stood at about 6'0. Plus, coming from a family of naturally attractive people, I was at least reasonably handsome myself, or so I’ve been told. I was just glad the girls weren’t staring at me in disgust for once, so I didn’t mind the attention as I walked back to my room.Back in my room I put my dirty clothes in my laundry bag, then sat at my desk and turned on my computer. Luckily the dorms all had Wi-Fi so I was able to connect to the internet. I decided to check my Facebook to see what my old friends were up to. I saw that I had received friend requests from Molly, Katie, Amanda, and Erin. I accepted the friend requests then signed out of Facebook. I then turned on some music and went over to my bed to lie down.I laid in bed listening to music and I thought about the day’s events. At first I dreaded having to go this school, but the first day wasn’t actually so bad, I did at least manage to meet a few intriguing girls. What an attractive group of girls, I thought. They were all seniors, like me, except they were actually supposed to be in this school, unlike me. Katie had dirty blonde hair that stopped just below her jawline and hazel eyes, she was certainly shorter and more petite than the other girls, standing about 5 foot zero, but had the more outgoing personality. Amanda had shoulder length flaxen blonde hair and light blue eyes, she had without a doubt the more curvy body type, her ample bust was noticeable even under that restrictive school uniform, and she’s about 5 foot 5. Erin had long dark almost black hair and brown eyes, I’d say she was the most average of the group, she stood about 5 foot 3 and while the other girls all had light tans of varying tones, Erin’s skin was a bit paler, not ghost white or anything but not tan either. Don’t get me wrong, Erin was plenty attractive too, she just didn’t stick out like the other girls did. Plus, she seemed to have a more reserved personality.Being a teenage boy with raging hormones, I immediately began to think about whether I had a shot with any of these girls. But then I remembered how I ended up in this school and realized I should just suppress my own urges and forget about it, lest I get kicked out of this school as well. You see, that trouble I got into at my old school, it was those very same hormones. Those damned accursed hormones that led me astray. Long story short, I got caught having sex with a female student in the girl’s bathroom. Then as if that alone wasn’t bad enough, the girl’s parents tried to say I forced her to have sex with me and threatened to get the law involved. In the end they got a restraining order against me, I was banned from ever setting foot on the school’s property, and I was forced to leave the county completely. No one believed for a second that I was innocent and the girl’s parents had pressured her to keep quiet, all of my friends stopped talking to me and even my own family began ignoring me. The whole matter got swept under the rug, but the damage was done. My mother, left with no options pulled some strings to get me into Redwood Academy for Girls, and trust me I see the irony in that, considering my supposed crime. I just want to set the record straight, I have never nor would I ever pressure a girl into sex.Needless to say, the whole incident had a lasting effect on me. I couldn’t so much as look at a girl without getting nervous now. I guess subconsciously the only thing I could think about was what all could go wrong, that history would repeat itself and I would end up in the exact same kind of situation that got me here in the first place. So I resolved to keep my hormone in check. I should just focus on my education, I told myself, and getting my family to forgive me. The latter would be much easier said than done. I still remember what my mother said to me after the incident, she looked at me with cold eyes and said: “I guess you’re no different than any other man. I’m so disappointed in you.” Her words cut me like a knife, and after a while I stopped trying to plead my innocence to her. I was depressed most of the time, constantly questioning why the girl wouldn’t just come clean, wondering why her parents had such an axe to grind, after all it was just a couple of horny teenagers doing what horny teenagers do. But most of all what bothered me was that my own family had never even stopped to hear my side of the story.Anyways back to the story, I was laying in my bed listening to music, thinking about the past. I was feeling pretty shitty, when suddenly I got a notification on my phone, the short ringing sound drew me out my own head and I checked my smart phone to see what it was. It was a notification of a Facebook message from Molly.It read: “Hey, I see you accepted my friend request. Here’s my cell number, text me sometime.”I immediately forgot about my sorrows as I read her message. I know I had resolved to keep my hormones in check, but what harm could come from just talking to a girl? So I saved the attached number to my phone, then proceeded to send a text.Me: Hey, it’s Alan. I just got your message.Molly: Great! And now I’ve got your number, I hope you don’t mind if I give it to Katie, Amanda, and Erin.Me: No, that’s fine.Molly: Awesome. So what ya up to?Me: Just lying in bed listening to music til I get tired, probably go to sleep here in a few minutes.Molly: Yeah same here. Hey, text me tomorrow and we’ll meet up for breakfast. Goodnight!Me: Will do. Goodnight.With that I turned off my phone and plugged it into the charger, then went over to my computer and shut it down. I lay back down in my bed and closed my eyes to go to sleep. My first day was finally over, and all in all it hadn’t been so bad. I met several girls who were nice and fun to be around. Maybe this school wouldn’t be so bad after all, I thought as I fell asleep.Over the next few weeks, I talked to Molly and the other 3 girls quite a bit, and we all were getting along pretty well. I was beginning to enjoy this new school I had been dreading at first. I was actually having fun. Sure, there were still plenty of other girls around school that would shoot me the stink eye anytime they saw me and they would even direct their looks towards Molly, Katie, Amanda, and Erin when we were spending time together. Anytime we had free time the 5 of us would hang out, sometimes we would even leave the school campus to go into the city and catch a movie, visit shops, or grab a bite to eat when we got tired of eating at school. Molly and I had especially gotten closer, we would talk with and/or text each other most every day. We’d gotten to where we talked about most everything with each other, no matter how personal. We trusted each other implicitly. But the one thing I could never bring myself to tell her was about the trouble at my old school, I wanted to avoid reliving those sour memories at all costs, I would take them to my grave if possible. Also I just didn’t want her to think less of me, even though I was sure she may be the only person who would believe my side of the story, I still couldn’t bring myself to talk about it. And even though I was certain I was beginning to fall this girl. I could never make a move. My past still haunted me and prevented me from doing so.Anyways volleyball season was just about to start so that meant the girls wouldn’t have as much free time anymore because they would be busy practicing. Luckily Molly and the girls invited me to come watch their practices anytime I wanted. So when I got done with classes for the day I would go sit in the gym bleachers and do my homework as I watched them practice, which served as good entertainment, but also good eye candy as often times the girls would practice in just their sports bras and short tight athletic shorts. It was almost as if they forgot there was a hormonal teenage guy sitting in the bleachers watching them, or they just didn’t care. Either way it provided me the opportunity to get a better look at their bodies. But anytime I found myself staring for too long, I would have to reprimand myself, after all I had promised myself I wouldn’t get into the same situation that landed me in so much trouble at my old school. I told myself it was okay to look, but I mustn’t try to take it any further than that. No matter how beautiful these girls were, I had to fight my urges. I could not afford to screw this up. Little did I know, on one particular day I would soon find myself embroiled in a similar set of circumstances but with a very different outcome.Said day was a Wednesday. Practice had been cut short because Molly had rolled her ankle trying to go for a save. It wasn’t severe or anything, and wouldn’t inhibit her from playing in the upcoming first match, but the coach had told her to stay off it for a few days. After the practice was cut short that evening Amanda and I helped Molly walk by letting her brace herself on our shoulders. We first went to the cafeteria for a quick meal, then we helped her to her dorm room. That’s where we parted ways and I went to my room, where I relaxed on my bed with some music playing on my computer. It was just past curfew when I heard a knock at my door. I got up walked over to the door wondering who could be visiting so late. I opened the door and to my surprise it was Molly, still in her practice clothes.“Molly, what the hell? I thought you were supposed to stay off that ankle?” I said in shock. “Not only that, do you know how late it is?” I continued.“I know. Look can I come in and sit for a bit?” she said with pain in her face and voice.“Um, okay, sure” I nervously said, I couldn’t in good conscience just make her limp all the way back to her room.“Don’t worry, my roomie is sleeping and everyone else in their rooms, so no one saw me.” she said, as I helped her over to the chair at my desk, shutting the door behind her and making one last check that nobody saw.“Okay, but what about Danielle? What happens when she does her nightly room checks?” I said, worried that the RA could pop in at any second and get the wrong idea about why Molly was in my room.“Oh, she’s out with her boyfriend tonight. She won’t be back til late. But that’s a secret, so shush, don’t tell nobody.” she replied with a giggle. “Seriously, don’t tell anyone, she could lose her job.” Molly stopped laughing.“Ok. So what’s up?” I asked, still confused as to why Molly was in my room.“Well I tried to sleep but this damn ankle hurts so bad. After awhile I got bored and wanted someone to talk to. Seeing as my roomie is sleeping and I knew you would still be up, I just decided to come see you.” Molly replied, flashing that same cute smile that I had become entranced by on many occasions.“Damn, I had no idea it hurt that bad, tough break, I’m sorry. Let me know if there’s anything I can do.” I said, showing real concern.After a pause, as though she were mulling it over, she finally spoke.“Actually, there is something I could use your help with.” she said, looking at the ground as she spoke.It was obvious that she was nervous, what could she possibly want help with, I wondered.“Well, ya see, since my ankle was hurting so bad I couldn’t take a shower earlier and I feel so nasty from sweating during practice, and I’m not supposed to put any weight on it. So, um, could you maybe help me get to the shower and make sure I don’t fall?” she said, looking as innocent as possible.I could hardly believe what I’d just heard. I wanted to refuse, because I knew where this could potentially lead and I did not want to go through that kind of trouble again. But then again maybe I was jumping to conclusions, maybe she really did need help, after all she had just hurt her ankle.“I don’t know, Molly. Don’t you think there’s someone better you could ask, like another girl?” I said,“I would, but everyone else is asleep, you’re the only person I know that stays up this late, and it’s not like anyone will see us, everyone is sleeping after all and Danielle doesn’t get back until much later when she goes out with her boyfriend. It’ll be fine, plus I trust you not to peek, so what’s the problem?” Molly replied.After thinking about it for a second, I realized that I was probably just reading too much into the whole thing, besides Molly most likely wasn’t interested in me in that way, I was as you might say, in the friend zone.“Okay, you make a valid point.” I said.“Great! Now if you would please help me back to my room so I can grab a towel and a change of clothes” she responded.“Yeah, no problem,” I said, letting her brace herself on my shoulder as I quietly helped her down the hall to her room.Once we got to her room I waited by the door as she quietly grabbed a towel and clothes from her dresser. We she finished I let her brace herself once more on my shoulder and helped her limp back down the hall to the showers.“Thanks for doing this Alan.” she said as we reached the bathroom.“You’re welcome.” I replied.I stood with my back turned to her so I couldn’t see as she braced herself on my shoulder to get undressed. And I assure you, the idea of an extremely attractive girl getting undressed right behind was certainly enough to get the blood flowing. I waited outside the stall while she showered, as she had requested, so I could help in case she fell.As thoughts of this hot naked girl showering right there near me flooded into my brain, I began to feel a slight stirring in my loins. I would have to be careful, to avoid her noticing. Although, as more thoughts flooded in, the ever increasing bulge in my pants was becoming much harder to conceal.Finally after about 15 minutes or so of waiting, I heard the water turn off. Molly reached her arm out from behind the curtain, so I handed her the towel she’d brought. Like before, I kept my back turned so I wouldn’t see her when she came out of the stall. Then, I guess she underestimated how wet the floor was and only being on one foot had made it even more hazardous because as she exited the stall she slipped and began to fall. Having good reflexes, I instinctively turned around to grab her and prevent her from falling. But due to the awkward way in which she was falling, I slipped on the wet floor as well as I caught her. With a thud I had fallen onto my back and Molly had fallen on top of me. It took me all of a few seconds to realize that the towel she had wrapped around herself had come undone in the commotion, and she was now lying on top of me with her wet modest B-cup breasts pressed against my chest. The only thing between us was my thin t-shirt which was now wet from her body.“Oh shit, are you okay Alan?” she asked.“Yeah, are you okay” I asked in return.“I’m good, because you caught me, thanks for that by the way.” she replied, giving me a quick peck on the cheek, seeing as our faces were just inches apart anyways.I had no time to think about the kiss on the cheek, however small it was, because that’s about the time I realized that her thigh was pressed right up against my crotch. She without a doubt could feel the rock hard bulge against her thigh, I was terrified. I then felt her nipples begin to harden against my chest as we just stared each other in the eye in complete silence. Then without warning Molly leaned her face down and kissed me on the lips. In that instant every bit of resolve I had to not make those same old mistakes had crumbled. Without even thinking about it I began to kiss her soft supple lips back. We kissed there on the floor for almost a minute before Molly broke our kiss.“I’ve waited so long to do that.” Molly said, staring me in the eyes once more.Wow, I thought, she was waiting to kiss me? I could see immediately that Molly had a fire in her eyes, and judging by the rigidity of nipples and her slight breathlessness, I could tell she was just as turned on as I was.To be continued.By Cheat105 for Literotica.

Crystal Gayle shares her heart and love of song. She connects with us.Hear Crystal's view of long term success. Be true to yourself. Just be you and don't be afraid to turn down money.Listen to the stories of Crystal's Mom, a hard working nurse. We shared stories of our beloved Mothers. Crystal sings high praise for Alan Reynolds, one of the great music producers of all time. And she talks about Richard Lee, songwriter of Don't It Make My Brown eyes Blue. She sang it and recorded in one take. Alan put strings on it and that was that. Hear about what gives Crystal hope. You WILL get through what troubles you and we will come out stronger.

Part One: (00:22)Luke Jordan is joined by Macdara Ferris and Dylan O'Connell on the extratime.com podcast to look back at the latest action and news in the League of Ireland the past week. The lads give their thoughts on Colin Healy's departure from Cork City, the Glanmire plans being abandoned, the Dublin Derby and the controversial referee decisions while Oisin Langan caught up with Shamrock Rovers midfielder Gary O'Neill after the derby to get his thoughts on another Rovers victory. Part Two: (43.50)Waterford F.C. striker Ronan Coughlan is on the show to chat to Luke and Donal Ryan about The Blues season so far. Ronan discusses his own goalscoring form, the impact of Keith Long and Alan Reynolds has had on the club, his career to date, his friendship with Philip Billing, his final season at St. Patrick's Athletic and much more. Support the show

Alan Reynolds to Waterford can only strengthen the Blues chances of automatic promotion this season. Roy Shanahan and Nathan Doyle discuss this and more including... - Shelbourne are busy behind the scenes - More Irish talent to Mainland Europe - Is Evan Ferguson the real deal?

Recessions are sad enough when they can't be avoided, but purposely creating them because of poor economic theory or practice is an entirely new level of unacceptable. That is the view of yours truly, as well as the view of my guest on Capital Record this week, Alan Reynolds. Alan is a senior fellow at the Cato Institute and a long-time Reagan-era supply-side economist and thought leader. Listen in for a conversation on why inflation is lower than people think -- and has been -- and why the Fed is making the same mistake in 2023 that it made in 2021, only from the other side of the coin. Just as “too easy” creates all sorts of problems, “too tight” does the same -- and then, guess what, leads to a new era of . . . “too easy.”

In this special Extratime.com LOI Voice Notes podcast we hear from:(00:58) Colin Healy and Macdara Ferris after a dramatic night in Tallaght Stadium(05:40) John Flanagan tells us about a lively encounter on and off the pitch at Oriel Park as Dundalk beat Shels 2-1(07:36) Owen Heary was at Dalymount Park to watch Bohs get back to winning ways against Drogheda United(09:35) Alan Keane describes how Sligo Rovers beat St Pats 2-1(14:20) Alan Reynolds talks about Derry City's 4-0 victory at UCD.Support the show

Derry City asst manager Alan Reynolds will be looking for 3 points in Tallaght. And is under no illusion that Shamrock Rovers have strength and depth in the squad to cover the suspensions this week to make it a difficult fixture. Join us live from Tallaght on Friday night with Oisin Langan & Dermot Liddy on Commentary duties. 

Join the Drama Mamas Podcast as they chat with Alan Reynolds, Artistic Managing Director of Lakeland Community Theatre about their production of "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang"and the inner workings of managing a community theatre. Join them as they go behind the scenes of Lakeland Community Theatre's latest show and get a glimpse of the exciting world of community theatre. Buy Tickets: https://app.arts-people.com/index.php?actions=4&p=1 Evening By The Lake: bit.ly/3SzvsoJ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/yourlct Website: https://www.lakelandcommunitytheatre.com Correction: When Cathi mentions Jenna Rhode she mean Jenna Snyder --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/dramamamas/message

Right before Dan goes to Qatar and Johnny loses another laptop we've gathered for the last dance. Regular sideman, Pat Fenlon is joined in studio by the man who once saved his job! Yes, none other than Eoin Doyle, who missed the Mendoza Line by half a goal this season but will be fresher next season after dragging his heart around St Anne's Park in the off season trying to remember who Stevie Nicks is. Alan Reynolds is f*cking live from Derry where low key celebrations and pre season planning is well under way following the minor distraction of a game last weekend. The victorious assistant joins us to discuss Lansdowne demons, big life decisions and his inability to get through a sentence without cursing. As 40 year old Johnny prepares for his one man crusade against Galway Utd next season, Dan has an insight on how to wear flares, the mailbag has the LOI Central drinking game (had to happen), and the lads in studio cast their thoughts forward to next season. All of this is subject to the continued and rather frivolous use of a marketing budget by Future Ticketing, Collar & Cuff, Porterhouse Brew and Malone Financial Services. They think it's all over.....

Fresh from lifting the FAI Cup at the Aviva Stadium on Sunday, Derry City assistant manager Alan Reynolds joins us to reflect on the win and the year that was, as well as looking ahead to 2023.  Kieran & Gary review the FAI Cup final and some of the crowd issues that surrounded the game, the play-off final between UCD and Waterford, Stephen McGuinness's comments about some First Division clubs, Kerry FC joining the LOI, the FAI's EURO 2028 bid, the future of LOI TV, and more, as well as briefly setting the tone for next season.  Thank you to all of our listeners this year! Sponsored by Quinn AV. 

Alan Reynolds showed his commitment to Derry City as Ruaidhri Higgins confirmed that he was approached by Bohemians to fill the managers post. Interview by Kevin McLaughlin

Roy Shanahan and Nathan Doyle look at the weeks League of Ireland stories including...... - Alan Reynolds says no to the bohs job - Cork City update us on the link to UCD - Ian Birmingham has a new job at St.Pats And much more....

Interview by Lawrence Moore

Dermot Liddy caught up with the Derry City asst Manager earlier to get his thoughts on Friday Nights fixture against Bohemians.

In this week's carbon neutral pod we travel forward in time to chat to Tom Grivosti of St. Pats and virtually welcome Derry and Ireland Under 21 Assistant Manager Alan Reynolds back to the pod to talk about handshakes, housewreckers, headcases and a small bit of football. There's the continuing saga of the mystery voice, the new Johnny Ward voice of advertising, the increasingly popular mailbag, the usual legal wranglings of O'Donnell, Clancy and Higgins, and a milk run gone wrong. All of this over a few laughs and a coffees in our Oliver Ireland studio and of course thanks to our usual sponsors, Future Ticketing, Porterhouse Brewing and Lou Feringo's favourite tailors, Collar & Cuff!

Interview by Dermot Liddy 

A certified hood classic? The hosts seem to disagree with each other, but nonetheless have to work together to figure out how to survive the Leprechaun in Leprechaun 5: In the Hood (2000) based on characters created by Mark Jones, written by William Wells and Alan Reynolds, and directed by Rob Spera. Think you could survive? *NO COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT IS INTENDED* Source Materials: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0209095/ Likert Scale Definition, Examples and Analysis | Simply Psychology Follow us on Social Media: Survive: The Podcast | Facebook Survive! The Podcast (@thesurvivepodcast) • Instagram photos and videos Survive! The Podcast (@survive_podcast) / Twitter https://www.tiktok.com/@thesurvivepodcast · Tik- Tok Consider supporting the podcast: Survive! The Podcast is creating Podcasts | Patreon And check out these other great podcasts!: Robots Radio Podcast Network Shows | Robots Radio Podcast Network Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In what will be a full house at the Brandywell on Friday night with the visit of Shamrock Rovers. The Derry asst manager believes the players won't need any outside motivation to put up a performance against the champions. Interview by Patrick Cooke 

“It is rarely prudent to assume that a central bank's central planners can predict the future better than you can, or that they really know what they are doing and why.” ~ Alan Reynolds

Patrick Cooke caught up with the Derry boss earlier on his latest signing for the club, Alan Reynolds becomes his No2

Patrick Cooke caught up with the Derry No2 earlier today

Llegamos a este episodio en modo "Hot Stuff", ya que dentro de La Autopsia tenemos a Eddie Gilbert. Al igual que incluimos a Master of Pain, ya que él sigue caliente y sacando del medio a cualquiera que se le pare en el medio. Link para acceder a los videos: Master Of Pain & Dutch Mantell vs Chris Frazier & Ken Raper - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJwY-CDydCs Master Of Pain & Dutch Mantell vs Alan Reynolds & Spike Huber - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lS4oS3Rc7DM Altercado entre Eddie Gilbert & Jerry Lawler - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G27ssw7Np4c Promo entre Eddie Gilbert vs Huracán Castillo, Jr. - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ygqkIhJPh4 https://www.takermaniapod.com/ Nos puedes escribir a nuestro correo electrónico - takermaniapod@gmail.com Siguenos en nuestras redes sociales: https://linktr.ee/Takermaniapodcast Arte creado por Destiny Sky: https://linktr.ee/Artsy_Alpaca Audios creados y producidos por Ramiro Delgado - https://www.instagram.com/ramirodelgadolocutor/ https://twitter.com/ramirodelgado Fotografía por JR - https://www.instagram.com/creative_outlook_photography "Copyright Disclaimer under section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for “fair use” for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, education, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing." https://paypal.me/takermaniapod?locale.x=en_US I'm on @buymeacoffee. If you like my work, you can buy me a coffee and share your thoughts

En este episodio, seguimos la línea del tiempo de Mark Callaway como Master of Pain, vemos como Master sigue detruyendo a todo aquel que se le para de frente. Esta vez comenzó hacer Tag Teams Matchs; donde discutimos que es en Blueprint, junto a Dutch Mantel. Adicional tenemos a Gino Hernández en La Autopsia, donde discutimos su corta carrera, los logros que tuvo y como desafortunadamente termino su vida. Recomendando el documental que hizo Vice en Dark Side of the Ring, respecto a la vida de Gino Hernández. Aqui adjunto el enlace para verlo en Youtube. Links para acceder a los videos: Master of Pain & Dutch Mantel vs Brian Lee & Jim McPherson - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJmr7sp_BIk&ab_channel=PeterBernard Master of Pain & Dutch Mantel vs Alan Reynolds & Chris Frazier - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhW3nCOuhkE&ab_channel=PeterBernard The Mysterious Death of Gino Hernandez | Dark Side of the Ring (Director's Cut) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=boNibGd0WZ4&t=410s Nos puedes escribir a nuestro correo electrónico - takermaniapod@gmail.com Siguenos en nuestras redes sociales: https://linktr.ee/Takermaniapodcast Arte creado por Destiny Sky: https://linktr.ee/Artsy_Alpaca Audios creados y producidos por Ramiro Delgado - https://www.instagram.com/ramirodelgadolocutor/ https://twitter.com/ramirodelgado Fotografía por JR - https://www.instagram.com/creative_outlook_photography "Copyright Disclaimer under section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for “fair use” for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, education, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing." https://paypal.me/takermaniapod?locale.x=en_US I'm on @buymeacoffee. If you like my work, you can buy me a coffee and share your thoughts

This week as the sun finally comes out Johnny and Dan reflect on Graham Burke's moment of magic and we hear from League of Ireland legends Pat Fenlon and Alan Reynolds on the best goals they witnessed, Shels and Waterford memories, coaching dynamics inside and outside the dressing room, Pat's Pro Licence gripe and why having a cat in the engine room is normally a bad idea. Finn Harps' Adam Foley gets booksmart on his academic endeavours to explain why he's suddenly come to prominence aged 31 and Johnny's media officer alliance provides us with a brief Mark McChrystal snippet as Derry toil. All of this and your chance to win a Four Star Pizza in the country's most compliant raffle. As long as you read Dan's Ezine that is....

This weekend St. Pat's manager Stephen O'Donnell, Shels attacker Michael O'Connor and UCD Captain Jack Keaney join Alan Keane and Breifne Earley to talk about their respective starts to their SSE Airtricity League seasons. Alan Keane talks through the games of the last week including briefly discussing Ireland's qualifier defeats in Belgrade and at the hands of Luxemebourg. With the second round of the Premier Division and opening weekend of the First Division there was plenty to talk about on the show. Stephen O'Donnell joins us to discuss Bill King's last minute winner against Drogheda United and two fine performances in Tallaght and against the Drog's last weekend. He chats about the management structure at the club and the role that Alan Mathews is playing within the setup. He also chats about the impact of players who've arrived at the club this season as well as the goals scored this weekend by players who've left Richmond Park for other pastures in 2021. Shel's recruit Michael O'Connor talks about his side's performance in their league opener at Eamonn Deacy Park where they took home a point despite being reduced to ten men in the first half of the game between the expected title challengers. He discusses his last few seasons bouncing around a few clubs including Dundalk, Linfield, Waterford, Ross County before his arrival at Shels this season where he plans to take advantage of his reunion with Alan Reynolds who was his manager during his most enjoyable spell in the game at Waterford. UCD captain Jack Keaney spoke about mixing his studies and his football career in Belfield and the difference between his life as a professional with Sligo Rovers and the student lifestyle. He talked about the importance of having a qualification to fall back on when the football days are done and dusted eventually, especially considering the experience of his brother's retirement from inter county gaelic games due to injury in his mid 20's. He talks about the professional setup at UCD, the role models who have progressed through the club to professional careers throughout the league and further afield and his own ambitions to have a long term ambitions to play and eventually coach within the sport.

Comenzamos este episodio con La Autopsia, en donde aprendimos sobre la carrera legendaria de Dusty Rhodes y su legado. Tambien reseñamos las siguientes 3 luchas dentro de la linea del tiempo en la carrera de The Undertaker. Links para acceder a estas luchas: Sonny Blaze - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VG-4RnoJrSI  William Ford - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLpYS7zJUeo  Alan Reynolds - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3erFanZKdv4 Lucha de Dusty Rhodes en TNA contra AJ Styles - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54F9S_GfH0c Documental sobre Dusty Rhodes - https://watch.wwe.com/program/The-American-Dream-the-Dusty-Rhodes-Story-12394 Nos puedes escribir a nuestro correo electrónico - takermaniapod@gmail.com Siguenos en nuestras redes sociales: https://www.instagram.com/takermaniapod/ https://twitter.com/takermaniapod/ Arte creado por Destiny Sky - https://www.instagram.com/artsyalpaca1209/ Tienda Virtual de Destiny Sky: https://www.redbubble.com/people/artsyalpaca1209/shop Audios creados y producidos por Ramiro Delgado - https://www.instagram.com/ramirodelgadolocutor/ "Copyright Disclaimer under section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for “fair use” for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, education, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing." I'm on @buymeacoffee. If you like my work, you can buy me a coffee and share your thoughts

Management is a big theme of this week's show. Drogheda manager Tim Clancy joins us after leading his side to promotion and explains the 24/7 commitment of dealing with the role and trying to fit real life around it. Alan Reynolds talks about his own transition and reflects on his dramatic year that started at Waterford, veered to Dundalk and has brought him to the Ireland U21 backroom team working with an exciting generation of players. We hear from John Caulfield after their massive win against Bray last weekend and look ahead to their Premier Division finale with Longford, while asking where all the goalscorers have gone.

Governor Newsom claims the right to dictate what sort of new cars Californians can buy, but not until 2035. When 2035 arrives, a different California Governor and legislature will surely ignore Newsom’s political time bomb. For one state to switch to electric cars would be demonstrably irrelevant to global warming, but not to the right of that state’s consumers to spend their earnings as they wish.

With the return of League football scheduled at last @kennethsloane, @marmulades and @rubot discuss the controversy surrounding the NLEC's restart plan, the mooted Peak 6 League bailout, the arrival of Alan Reynolds, Joshua Gatt and Nathan Oduwa to Oriel Park, socially distanced Cup Finals, and why Irish football without fans is literally nothing.

Alan Reynolds quits as manager of Waterford FC, Nationwide comes to Waterford, voices for retail outlets re-opening and the premiere league returns

Former Waterford FC manager Alan Reynolds admits he doesn't want to leave his hometown club, in this indepth interview with Damien Tiernan

Marie Crowe and Donncha O'Callaghan are joined by Alan Reynolds, Tyler Bleyendaal, Gary Murphy and Orlagh Farmer.

No make-up, no lingering looks to camera, no Facebook likes. The coronavirus has sent LOI Weekly back to its roots with an audio only Skype special broadcast from designated bunkers around Dublin. We discuss the serious business of what the Covid-19 crisis means for Irish football and the uncertainty over what happens next. We hear Niall Quinn discuss the LOI's position and managers Tim Clancy and Alan Reynolds offer their take on their club's response to the unprecedented situation. A posse of players let us know how they are keeping busy, while listeners questions takes us down some strange paths. Tune in as we try to keep you company.

This week host Declan Marron is joined by Macdara Ferris and Andrew Dempsey as they talk about the unaired Dublin Derby (1.23) and analyze the first round of league games with reaction from Aaron Greene & JJ Lunney (4.52), Alan Reynolds & Alan Mathews (17.00) and Ian Morris & Neale Fenn (23.33). Ciarán Kilduff also joins us to talk about joining the LOI 100 club, returning to the league from Jacksonville and Shels returning to the big time (33.56). All of this and XG in the LOI and the revolutionary idea of combining highlights and football analysis on TV.Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/extratimecom)

Confidence crises, spotfixing drama, beautiful Kevin Davies, encountering Van Dyke, no Cup medal. Graham Cummins has had a well-traveled and colourful career that gradually eroded his love for football. But Waterford boss Alan Reynolds has rekindled the fire.

Luke Byrne joins us, not quite fresh from promotion celebrations but happy to reflect on a morale boosting year at Shelbourne. We also hear from his manager Ian Morris and check  in on two other bosses experiencing a different range of emotions right now - Limerick’s Tommy Barrett and Waterford’s Alan Reynolds. Cup draws, cup wins and the now customary Galway tangent also feature on the show.

Alan Reynolds and Johnny Dunleavy both make long trips to our Dublin studio for episode four, with "Rennie" discussing recent tensions with Cork City and his theory on why he was brought in to work with John Caulfield back in 2016. “JD” also reflects on his years at Turner's Cross but is revelling in his new role at Sligo Rovers. The lads also discuss the joys of coaching courses and the challenge of integrating overseas recruits to LOI dressing rooms. All the while, an under-par Dan struggles through the show as Johnny talks up the health of the First Division.

On Soccer Republic Extra Waterford manager Alan Reynolds on European football. Cabinteely's Pat Devlin on the need to develop a shadow international squad. Sean Gannon of Dundalk on winning his sixth League medal and Kylie Murphy of Wexford Youths on securing the Women's league title.

Hujum. That’s Arabic for attack and this weeks show is full of massive attacks. The arthritic Karl Sheppard picks up the phone to discuss Johnny's attacks on Cork, Alan Reynolds is alive, black and blue and mad as ever after his hujum. Johnny, like a big green bottle of fizz on a hospital bedside locker is 7 up on the predictions front and has news of the full on Arabian hujum down the Dyke Road. Dan, who’s dreams of getting a free steak dinner are crumbling like china in his hands, is in studio to temper Johnny’s giddy Galway excitement, and ‘No No’ we haven’t got a Pat Dolan impression or for that matter an anthem recital, but Homer's back and that makes episode 18 a World Cup tinged, truly global, must listen……and it’s not too long either.

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What follows is an edited transcript of my conversation with Vincent Geloso. Petersen: My guest today is Vincent Geloso of the Free Market Institute at Texas Tech University. Vincent, welcome to Economics Detective Radio. Geloso: It's a pleasure to be here. Petersen: So the paper we'll be discussing today is titled "A U-curve of Inequality? Measuring Inequality in the Interwar Period" which Vincent has co-authored with John Moore and Phillips Schlosser. The paper casts doubt on the claim from, most notably, Thomas Piketty and others that inequality fell from the 1920s to the 1960s and rose thereafter. So, Vincent let's start by discussing the inequality literature prior to this paper. What is this U-curve and where did it come from? Geloso: The U-curve is probably the most important stylized fact we have now in the debate over inequality and the idea is that, if you look at the twentieth century, there's a high point of inequality in the 1910s, 1920s and then from the 1930s onwards up to 1970s, it falls dramatically to very low levels and re-increases thereafter, returning to 1920s-like levels of inequality. So the U-curve is the story of inequality in the twentieth century. It's mostly a U.S. story because for other countries it looks less like the U-curve than an inverted J. So it's higher in the 1920s, it still falls like in the U.S. but really increases much more modestly than the United States in places like Sweden, or France, or Canada. But the general story is that there was a high level of inequality at the beginning of the century well up to the mid-second-half of the twentieth century and it re-increased in the latter years and then we have been on a surge since then. Petersen: So, a lot of this is coming from Thomas Piketty, who of course wrote the surprising bestseller "Capital in the Twenty-First Century." Could you talk a little bit about where his data came from? Geloso: Okay, by the way, this is where there's a failing on my part which I think I always find funny; an anecdote to tell about Piketty. I'm originally from Quebec, so I am a French-Canadian, I speak fluent French. His work started coming out in French first and I initially started to write elements of the paper we're discussing today back when it was only in French. And then I told myself, "There's no point, it's only a French book, nobody reads French. What's the point of writing a paper about a book that no one will read?" Biggest mistake of my career, I guess, not writing that paper before. But anyways, besides that, his entire argument is based largely on his most influential paper---which I think was published in 2003 in the Quarterly Journal of Economics---which was using tax data. So, the records, the fiscal statistics to create measurements of income inequality in the United States and the advantage of that is that since the income tax started in 1910s you've got a long, long period of measurement of income inequality with the same source. So it's a great advantage because a lot of the people before like Kuznets, like others had to use residual estimates, different sources, they were amalgamating different sources together and it was always a problem because you couldn't create one homogeneous time-series of inequality. You could get a rough idea and there's a few papers---for those who read economic history stuff---there was a paper by Lindert and Williamson in the 70s in research in economic history and you can see their first graph in that paper was a series of different measures of inequality. They were all pointing to the general similar shaped curve but they were all from massively different statistics, different sources. So one was the 50:10 ratio of earnings, another one was a measure of income, the other was wages and they are all different measures, they are not perfect. You can get a good idea, a rough idea but you cannot have a continuous time estimate which is what Piketty innovated by using the tax-wealth with Emmanuel Saez, recreating this long continuous trend in data from 1917 to the modern day. And they keep updating it regularly to include the new data on a yearly basis. Petersen: So tell me about tax avoidance. How does that affect things? Geloso: Okay, this is where the existing data that all the different sources had---Piketty made advancement. Rather than having variance across different sources, he was eliminating that variance. But there's still an issue of variance within a source. So it's not because you have used a homogenous source that the quality of the data contained within the source is consistent. There's actually quite a lot of variance in data quality because of the way the tax system was done. So a lot of the debate today for the data for today has been---has there been such a large increase in inequality as Piketty and Saez and Atkinson and others have been pointing out? And the reason for that was largely because, as Alan Reynolds, as Joel Slemrod, and a few others have pointed out, the tax changes of the 1980s were so large that people shifted the way they reported income. They changed the way they reported tax liability. What used to be classified as corporate income became classified as individual income, and so you get an artificial increase because of a way the tax system has changed. And this is why a lot of people say, as soon as you correct for the effect of changes in tax reporting behavior, you actually get a much more modest increase of inequality. But that's from 1980 to today with a massive tax change in the 1980s. If you go back further in time, to the interwar period the tax changes are much more dramatic. In 1913, the tax rate was 7%, went up to 15% in 1916 to 73% until 1921, went back down to 24% by 1929, went back up to 79% by 1939. Imagine, that's a lot of movements in the way taxes will affect behavior and it will affect reporting behavior. So, will you report, will you be as honest as you would be when you're filing taxes at 79%, as you are when you're filing taxes at 24%? So you're getting---because of these massive changes in tax regimes that are happening over very short periods of time---these massive changes affect the quality of the data set that Piketty is using for the left side of his U-curve. The left side of the U-curve is probably inaccurate to a very high level because of tax avoidance, and this is where the economists in general failed to talk to historians because there's a few papers out there that did measure---especially in the Journal of Economic History---that did measure changes in reporting. So changes in tax avoidance occur basically to a large level by the top incomes, as Gene Smiley argues in the Journal of Economic History, for example, which Piketty has never cited neither Saez, neither anyone in the debate. And he did corrections, so he checked: Okay, when a tax rate went down from 73% to 24%, did people change their reporting behavior? Did more rich people start to report incomes? And the answer is 'yes.' And as soon as he started doing corrections for that to control the "artificialness"---if that's a word---of the tax changes on affecting the level of inequality, he actually finds that the 1920s have a much lower level of inequality because of the reduction in tax rates and there was very little upward trend, especially when we're comparing with the Piketty, with the Mark Frank data, with the Kuznets data and it shows that as soon as you adjust for tax avoidance the left side of the U-curve flattens dramatically and it looks more like an L---an inverted L---or a J, but it doesn't look at all like a U-curve and that's just tax avoidance for the 1920s. The increases in the 1930s in tax rates would have had the opposite effect where people would have reported less income. So, the level of inequality in the 1920s is overestimated in Piketty and it's underestimated for the 1930s. So you're kind of flattening the entire interwar period as soon as you consider the one issue of tax avoidance. And there are estimates out there in the Essays in Economic and Business History by Gene Smiley and Richard Keehn. Smiley's article in the JEH, which has been ignored in the literature, but which did check that people at the top of the income distribution are generally very sensitive to changes in tax regime in the way they report their tax liability. Petersen: So, today they would do that by maybe registering---having their money in the Cayman Islands or Ireland or the Isle of Man, their tax shelters abroad. Was the avoidance different in the 1920s? I expect it would be harder to enforce taxes given that the income tax was so new and there were all these changes and they didn't have electronic records, or how did it work? Geloso: You're thinking of avoidance in a very negative term which is the illegal part, which is what has somewhat permeated the public debate and I have this reflex myself. I think of avoidance always in that way. But avoidance is sometimes just planning your taxes, your sources of income, differently. One example would be---and it's not really applicable to our case---parents can put their kids on company payroll because it's cheaper dollar for dollar relative to giving them an allowance from after-tax personal income. So, people can change their behavior in their way to get money, in the way they report their income. So you can pass corporate income as a personal income or personal income as corporate income. You can deduct expenses one way or another. And one way or another it comes to affecting the quality of the data set. And it does matter, because if you look at the 1980s when there was a rapid change in the income tax rate, which was much more important a change than the change in the corporate tax rate, it led people to change the type of incorporation they were in, so they became S corporations, so corporations that were not subjected necessarily to the corporate income tax. So, it affected the way people reported, classified their income and it appears artificially the income inequality statistics. The 1920s' equivalent was municipal bonds. Municipal bonds were assets that delivered incomes but they were not subjected to taxes so this was like a tax shelter that was completely legal and that rich people used in dramatic amount to reduce their tax liability. So, when people think of tax avoidance it's generally this idea that people just reorganized their classification of income to make sure they have the smallest liability possible and in a situation like that, what you get is a much different level and trend of inequality because of the changes in tax regimes that induce changes in tax reporting behavior. Petersen: So is Piketty not adjusting for this at all? He's just taking the tax data at face value? Geloso: He's trying some stuff but he gets a lot of the tax history quite wrong and what alerted us to this is that Gene Smiley's paper, which is not in an obscure journal, it's in the Journal of Economic History which is considered a top tier journal in the profession of economics---it's not AER, it's not QJE, but it is a very respectable journal. And Smiley's article is also very cited. There's a large number of citations of that paper and Piketty just ignores it. And you skim through his book and the discussion is always brushed aside and these effects of changes in tax regimes is always minimized as if it was not important. But tax avoidance is only like a fraction of the problem, because if you look, there's another issue that's much more dramatic than tax avoidance. Alone the issue of tax avoidance, if you take Smiley's stuff, changes the narrative dramatically but that's just our first shot in this debate with me, John, and Philip. It's our first shot, the second shot is that filing requirements were nowhere close to what they are like today. And actually this is something funny, the idea of Piketty is that you can create a series assuming tax compliance for a country that was founded on a tax revolt which is---for a historian---kind of a weird assumption built in the way he does his history part. And if you look at it, one of the example is that you look at the changes in wages of people---wages for unskilled workers, wages for mining workers, for agricultural workers---they do not evolve at all like his bottom 90% of income behaves, it behaves actually very differently. So, in our paper we show that the quality of what's at the bottom of the income distribution is dramatically different, so wages go up much faster than the income of the bottom 90%. And this is wages. So, you think what, maybe hours are going down? No they're not in the 1920s and 30s---well in the 30's they're going down---but in 1920s hours are actually staying stable and in some industries are actually slightly increasing. So you should not see what Piketty's data suggest, which is that there was stagnation in the income of the bottom 90%. There was declining unemployment, there was rising wages and hours remaining relatively stable. It's impossible to reconcile these facts with those of Piketty without considering that there might be problems in the way people filed their taxes. And this is where the entire thing breaks down and you look at, for example, the number of tax filers that were actually there. And you look at that as a percentage of the American population, up to the 1930s---so until the Second World War---there's never more than 6 or seven 7 percent of population that files in tax reports. Petersen: And you'd expect it to be the wealthier people too, who are filing right? Because you have people below a certain income, they don't file income tax, right? Geloso: Exactly. This wouldn't be a problem if your distribution of people behaved equal to the distribution of the general population and the movements were the same. It wouldn't be a problem. The thing is when you look at the number of adjusted tax returns which is what Piketty and other people like Estelle Sommeiller or Mark Frank do. They try to re-correct this issue of a very small number of tax reports that were actually filed in and they get an idea---and this is figured too, I think, in our paper. There's a steady upward trend in the number of adjusted tax units but when you look at the actual number of tax units it moves so much. It goes up and down and it doubles in the span of two years, then it reduces by half in the span of another two years and these are such large movements in the number of tax units that it's hard to see that this might be a representative sample of the American population. Differences in reports and such changes in our reporting---and the number of reports I should say---suggest that there is actually a problem in the quality of the data. And this is where we're saying that if you combine this with the observation that wages were increasing, unemployment was falling, and that hours were more or less stable, and that you add this fact of the massive changes in tax returns, you can easily question the quality of the data from the 1920s and the 1930s. This is where we're coming in and we're saying, no, the people who reported taxes were very volatile. They were rich people who reacted to changes in income taxes. Lower income individuals also were very much tax resisters. There's an entire story told by David Beito. I think it's with University North Carolina Press. He has a book on tax resistance in the United States during the 1920s and 30s and there's actually a large documentation of anti-tax leagues that have massive memberships of common individuals who are resisting filing taxes at that time. So it's quite plausible to say that, if there's such a difference in wages, in hours, in unemployment what they and these massive changes in the number of tax returns filed, it suggests that probably the poor people just didn't file in their taxes. So, any movement at the bottom of the distribution does not exist according to Piketty's data. But there were movements at the bottom. There were people who moved from poor Kansas to Illinois. They were still in the bottom 90% but by moving from farming Kansas to Chicago to work in a garment industry, they get a gain in income but that is not captured in Piketty's data because it's highly likely that poor individuals tended to file fewer tax returns and were probably more hostile to filing them, and the rich were just reacting to changes in tax regimes. So, the tax filing requirements would actually lower the level of inequality overall from the 1920s and 1930s. So, the tax avoidance issue would change the trend and the issue of tax filing requirements would drop the level because we're not capturing bottom incomes properly. So you're changing the U-curve progressively as each of our critiques is embedded in the argument you actually progressively bring down the left side of the U-curve and it looks more and more like a J, or an L, or a hockey stick. Petersen: I remember in 2012 Mitt Romney got in trouble for pointing out that 47% of the population doesn't pay income tax. So if Mitt Romney were running for president in the 1920s, I guess he would have said something like 94% of people are not filing and paying income taxes. Is that right? Geloso: Exactly. That would be a very accurate. Well it's 94% of people. The taxes were based on households, but still 6% and then later on after the Second World War it jumped above 40%. So there's a massive change not only in tax regimes in terms of rates, but filing requirement regimes, which will also change the tax behavior of individuals. And not only that, this is something that actually, it was buried in a footnote of Smiley's article which is---still I will point out not cited by Saez and Piketty---but it's so rigorous and it contains so many pieces of information that are crucial. Until 1938 public sector employees were not mandated to file in taxes. This is an unknown fact. Until 1938 they did not have to file in taxes. So this is actually a very very big factor. So in terms of wage earners, so not everyone, it excludes farmers, but all wage earners, 12% of them were government workers. This is a substantial share of the workforce and not only that, their earnings are slightly above the rest of the workforce and the increase in their earnings is above those of the other workers in the United States in that period. But they're just not considered in the tax distribution. So until the public salary Act of 1939---which was debated in the Senate in 1938-1939, the 1.2 million federal employees---this is a large number---were drawing large wages and they're just not included in the statistics based on tax data. This has a massive impact on the level of inequality. Public workers were not in the top 1%, they were not the richest, they were not poor and they were earning much more over time. I'm not trying to debate whether it was efficient government spending or if they were paid at actually providing public goods that people actually did want. But set that issue aside, they had higher wages than the average representative of a sizeable share of the workforce and their wages increased much more importantly than other ones. So you're affecting the trend. You're affecting the level and you add this other issue and then look again, imagine the U-curve in your head. Tax avoidance, it changed the trend. It made it less, it made it much lower in the 1920s than it was. It increased it relative to the Piketty data in the 1930s. The entire level then is reduced by adjusting for tax filing problems and then if you tried to adjust the issue of public sector employees who didn't have to file in their taxes you drop the level again, so it's looking less and less like a U-curve than what Piketty claims. So, we haven't made all these adjustments, we're just stating facts that should be known in the inequality debate. Our goal is later on to test each of our points. We're sending such a large number of criticisms that there's bound to be one that sticks in terms of the data quality. Because these are such huge data quality that it effects a major stylized fact about inequality: the U-curve. If today we believe that the U-curve---there's a debate over whether or not there's been such a large increase---everybody agrees that there's been an increase, but there's a massive debate over how big this increase is today. Imagine how crucial it would be to correctly debate the level of inequality and the trend of the left side of the U-curve. And if we're having all these debates with all the survey data, all the census data, all the private big data stuff that we have out there for the modern era and we still have high level of uncertainty, imagine anything with all the points I've mentioned for the interwar period, the left side of the U-curve. Everything seems to indicate that's probably much lower. I'm not saying there's not a U-curve, maybe it looks like a ball, a very modest ball, or there's a slight decrease, there's a slight increase, but it's not Piketty's U-curve, it's not the same stylized fact. And it changes the narrative we should have about inequality. Petersen: Yeah, I'll never forget one experience I had. It was the original Occupy movement and I went down to see the protests going on in Victoria B.C. where I was at the time and one guy just had a big sign where he had printed off a graph. You know, an inequality graph of the 1% versus the 99% from Piketty and Saez. I'm not sure if it went all the way back to the 1920s but really, that's sort of a very clear sign that these debates are expanding beyond academia and having a big effect on the public and their perception of the world we live in, the ideal policies that we should be pursuing. A big part of the U-curve narrative is to say look at how successful the policies in the 40s and 50s were at reducing inequality and of course if we do away with this U-curve then maybe those policies, all they did was bring more people into the data set. Geloso: Yes, and it changes who reports in the data set. I know Phil Magness, who is joining our team with me and John Moore and Bill Schlosser. Phil Magness has been working on showing that a lot of the changes in our tax regime actually just mimic the entire movement of the income share of the top 1%. It follows what share of taxes they're asked to pay and it leads to changes in reporting and basically it's a story of tax regimes and it changes the entire narrative. But what I find much more depressing---and this is a depressing fact---if just one of our criticisms lands and sticks, the U-curve doesn't look like a U. Let's say it looks like a J. So there's a mid-point in the 1920s and we've been increasing since then at a relatively high rate since the 1970s. So it fell from 1920 to 1970 and then it re-increased. If you look at what caused the leveling from 1920 to 1970, a lot of it has nothing to do with state intervention, with the efforts at redistribution. There's probably a sizable share of it that has to do with that. But there's also a sizable, and probably the larger share, that comes from poor regions catching up with rich regions. If you look at for example the history of inequality in the United States you would see that if you decompose the variance---so what caused the inequality---for most of American history a large share of inequality was caused by differences between states rather than differences between individuals. One way to see it, and I'm making a caricature here to get the point across, but you could have the same shape of distribution in income in Kansas and New York. But since the average in New York is much higher than in Kansas, you average the two in, you get a much higher level of inequality, so you can get like a Gini coefficient for the two of them of .4 but in each of them individually taken the level inequality is like .2. And this is what happens for most of US history. There are massive gaps between regions rather than gaps between skills, between levels, so Mississippi is poorer than New York for a long period of time. But in the 40s, 50s, 60s, 70s this gap basically volatilized, it began to disappear. One of the massive story of the twentieth century---some economists are aware---is this massiveness of convergence between regions. So the South gets richer. Poor black people move from poor states in the South where they're sharecroppers, they move to the North where they become wage earners in garment factories, in manufacturing and their earnings grow dramatically. So there's a massive convergence during that period. But, if you think about it for a second, it means that the gap between regions and the gap between races is actually a big driver in the leveling part of the U-curve, but that has nothing to do with tax redistribution. It has nothing to do with this. So, as soon as we integrate our criticism into the tax data, and we show that the U-curve looks less and less like a U, the left side of it makes it look less and less like a U. And you consider these two economic history facts that I've just mentioned, it's incredibly depressing to consider in the inequality narrative, to say well a lot of it is just stuff that would have happened anyways. There would have been a decline in inequality regardless of how much the state intervened to redistribute income because there was this convergence. And not only that, the leveling of inequality was not as great as we say it was. So it changes the entire story. We have inequality and how to address the issue and, not only that, I will point out that across the same period the one thing that goes up relatively steadily is government spending to GDP. If you were to account for all our criticism and then consider which part of inequality was reduced by government redistribution, it becomes more and more depressing because it seems like the effect is much smaller than people believe. This is where we're trying to disentangle all these elements to tell the correct story of inequality in the United States and it starts with getting the shape of inequality right. But look at the story I have just told you. As soon as we make this small change of properly assessing things, the entire narrative we have then changes. And this is why it's a dramatic fact to get right and which is why we're somewhat disappointed with Piketty's stuff because he's not making the right level of methodological discussion. Petersen: Right. Piketty uses his narrative to push for large-scale taxes and redistribution. Geloso: Yes. I'm not saying that what he does is bad. It was a massive improvement relative to what was there before. But his story has flaws, and these flaws tend to support his narrative. We point out the flaws that would support a different narrative, that point out that probably inequality is not as high as we say. It probably would have fallen up in the 1970s because of very natural forces and if you think about the fact that since the 1970s there's been a slight divergence---so, imagine the leveling of inequality between regions in the United States. The divergence fell until the 1970s, but it has increased modestly since then because of regulation on housing, things that limit mobility across states that the depress income growth in some areas. So you end up with a slight divergence since then and it is caused by states. It's not caused by anything that the government is doing. It's really an issue of very regionalized factors and each time you consider each of these nuances in, the narrative changes. And it changes dramatically against the story Piketty's telling and it shows that the flaws are biased in favor of the conclusion he supported. Petersen: Right. And I know Phil Magness has really criticized him on this, that he makes a lot of decisions where you could go one way or the other and they always seem to turn out his way. Which is maybe a coincidence, or maybe it's not really the best way to do social science. You point out that there were big price differentials between regions so how does that play into the regional inequality story? Geloso: So, we're basing our discussion on this part of a longer series of papers where each of the points we've discussed will basically be one paper in itself. Here we're just stating this entire case for skepticism, then we'll see how big the impact is. Regardless, even if they're all minor, they will all change the narrative. And prices, regional price differences are an issue in that. So, when you compare nominal income across a country you are getting an idea of inequality but---you will agree with me. So, you're in Vancouver. I'm originally from Montreal. If I give you a dollar income in Vancouver and I give myself a one-dollar income in Montreal you think that dollar will go as far in Vancouver as it does in Montreal? Petersen: I think it probably won't. Geloso: Exactly. So you would expect that regional price differences will affect the level of inequality. And there's actually a lot of people that do that. Each time you make controls for the level of price differences, you actually find that the level of inequality falls modestly. But it falls. But the thing is, the price differences that we have today between Vancouver to Montreal or between New York and the region of Mississippi are not at all what these gaps used to be in 1920 or in 1925. In 1925 the gaps would have been much, much, much larger and from 1925 to the 1940s there's been a convergence of prices across regions. So for the first 50 years, roughly, of the twentieth century you get a convergence of prices across regions. So if you just took nominal income without correcting for regional price differences, you would get a massive drop in inequality. However, if you were to correct for an increasingly smaller mistake because, if you think about it, if the wage gaps used to be on average 25% in 1890, let's say, and they used to be 5% in 1950, the error is decreasing over time. So you're getting the level off by a smaller and smaller quantity over time. So it means that the trend changes. The smaller your measurement error caused by regional price differences falls, the less pronounced the fall in inequality becomes. So you get a massive drop in inequality as measured by nominal income, which is not what it is when you correct the regional price differences, so you put this in real dollars adjusted for purchasing power parity. And not only that, the errors caused by regional prices actually also follow a U-curve. So the errors that would be caused by price level differences across regions declined up to 1950 but since then they've re-increased. So if before you're getting a lower and lower trend---a lower trend by a diminishing amount of error---that means the right side of the curve, that means the increasing disparity in prices across regions since 1950. It means that you're actually increasing nominal prices using nominal income across the country. You will underestimate the increase in inequality since then. So there are actually massive measurement errors caused by this issue of regional prices. When I say massive, I shouldn't say massive because it's dishonest but it affects both the level and the trends. So it affects the shape of the curve and remember we're making all these criticisms to the U-curve story piece by piece. Each one of them has a small prickly effect on the shape of the curve. As soon as one or more starts sticking---and they're all documented otherwise for other periods---not prior interwar period, not a sufficiently as we'd wish to, which is why we're doing this project of massive data collection. It changes the narrative, changes the story, changes the way the curve looks and it's not much of a U-curve anymore and the proper measurements get you a very different story of the evolution of inequality. And that different story forces you to change interpretations and solutions and the entire structure of the debate must change to reflect the higher level of precision that is required for that debate. Petersen: So. I'm trying to think of why these prices between regions might fall in the first half of the twentieth century and rise thereafter. I suppose a lot of it would be real estate, housing? Geloso: Exactly. So housing markets in the U.S. are more or less freer in the first half of the twentieth century than they are today. So most prices, if you can trade a good across borders it will arbitrage out price differences minus transport, right? So if goods are movable more or less as well, and you find it for food, for TVs, for durable goods, you tend to find that there's actually still convergence. But housing, you can't really move a house. There's actually movable houses but they're not a massive share of the market. So you'd expect less ability---and I'm saying this as a euphemism---but you'd expect less ability for arbitrage with housing. The only way you can do arbitrage for housing is by moving around. So I am in Mississippi and I see super high wages in New York. I move from Mississippi to New York. So in Mississippi there's one more housing unit available and in New York there's one less housing unit available. I've driven up housing prices in New York and I've got higher wages but housing is a little more expensive in New York and then it falls in the region where I left in terms of housing, so that real wages in that region converged. So there's a convergence in real wages by people moving around. The problem now is that, there is very, very, very little ability to move around in the United States because zoning restrictions actually make it harder for people to come and exploit the productivity of large cities like New York. So it prevents this convergence in real terms across regions. So a large part of the increase in inequality needs to be corrected for regional price differences, which is the argument about housing. And this is where it's probably that the soundest part of our argument is that the Rognlie papers that attack Piketty state that a large part of inequality was driven by rents towards housing, so the fact that income derives from housing is increasing importantly as a share of total income and has nothing to do with capital itself. It's really the artificial restrictions on housing. And this is largely the problem the inability of people to move to where wages are the most important. This changes the narrative. So that's why the story of regionally correcting price differences is crucial and it's rarely done over a long time series data set. But given the evolution of prices in the United States since 1900, it will affect the trend dramatically. It will affect the level, the shape, and this is not integrated in the argument. And this is why we're saying in this paper, each time you make a correction to get a higher level of precision, it's getting more and more plausible that the curve of inequality doesn't look like a U, it looks probably like an L, probably like a J, but not a U. So the early period of the twentieth century is not as high as people have claimed and there's probably been an increase since the 1970s. Not as much as some would claim, but the increase seems to have happened. The U-curve is probably just fictional. It is the result of poor controls or variations in equality of the taxes. Petersen: We've discussed the housing issue on other episodes of this podcast but it's sort of a one-two punch to inequality, where the people who, you know, maybe have bought a house in the San Francisco Bay area in the 1980s, have seen the value of that house skyrocket. And so of course that would contribute to the upper end of that wealth distribution. And the people who live in Mississippi and might like to move to the San Francisco Bay area and work for Google, can't afford to do it because of the extremely high price of rent there. So, that's reducing mobility and exacerbating these regional differences and also directly increasing the wealth of people who own homes who are, of course, already on the wealthier side. Geloso: Yes, in a static term, correcting for price differences across region. So if you were to take a picture of the economy right now and you make a picture of inequality based only on nominal incomes across the country---just using U.S. dollars---you'll get a higher level than if you correct for regional price differences. However, it's quite likely that if you were to make a movie of how inequality evolved, the housing restrictions---and this is a comment that's outside our paper and it's just something I think it's worth commenting on---if you make it so that it's impossible to move from low-income Mississippi to high-income California, you're going to make sure that inequality stays high and probably increases. If, let's say, there's a shock to international trade and Mississippi area tended to be manufacturing and people can't move from manufacturing to higher productivity jobs in San Francisco. So in dynamic terms, housing restrictions by preventing mobility prevent a strong equalizing source of income. So in static terms you get the level wrong, but in a dynamic term you're preventing the powerful force of mobility across the country---and this is something I like to point out---if you look for example, you bring someone from Italy to Canada in 1890, his income increased 300% as soon as he got to Canada. He was much richer the minute he set foot in Canada. You probably increased inequality in Canada---I don't know about if you decrease it or increase it in Italy---but when you move that guy away, you probably reduce global inequality. So by moving people to where the incomes are higher you level off inequality. In the United States it's the same narrative, you prevent this equalizing force from working through housing restrictions and making adjustments for---this is beyond the scope of our own research---but making adjustments for the increasing restrictiveness of housing that prevents mobility, you will probably get a large part of increasing inequality in the United States or even in England, which is also a situation like that, and in France, is not the result of terrible market forces responding to terrible government policies. Petersen: My guest today has been Vincent Geloso. Vincent thanks for being part of Economics Detective Radio. Geloso: It was a pleasure.  

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…or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Inequality. David R. Henderson (http://www.davidrhenderson.com) is a research fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution, and a professor of economics at the Graduate School of Business and Public Policy, Naval Postgraduate School, in Monterey, California. Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the 21st Century (http://amzn.to/1LT9jLG) managed to do something unprecedented among equation-dense economic tomes, it became the #1 selling book on Amazon.com. The book tapped in to a hot topic among politicians and the general public: the high (and possibly rising) wealth and income shares of the top 1%. However, David points out that although the book was a best-seller, it wasn’t actually a best-reader. Amazon logs the sentences people highlight, and the top five most-highlighted sentences in Capital all appear in the first 26 pages (www.wsj.com/articles/the-summers-most-unread-book-is-1404417569). It seems that, at least among kindle readers, most people didn’t make it past the introduction. It appears that people buy the book to back up the views they already hold. David thinks that the huge interest in economic inequality in general and the wealth of the 1% in particular was sparked in the 1990s by politicians, including Al Gore, and picked up by journalists like Sylvia Nasar (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylvia_Nasar), before influencing the economics debate. Piketty has been able to ride this wave of public interest at what appears to be its crest. David distinguishes between inequality of wealth, inequality of income, and inequality of power. Income inequality is the difference in the amount of income we each take in in wages, interest, dividends, and government transfers (e.g. welfare or social security payments), the four main sources of income for most people. Wealth should ideally include the total value of a person’s assets in addition to the stream of income he is likely to earn in the future, though this stream is more often ignored in wealth statistics. Wealth inequality is not the same as income inequality. Critically, since people earn variable income throughout their lives, income inequality doesn’t capture what we think of as the gap between “rich” and “poor.” Retired people who own two-million-dollar homes might have low incomes, but they certainly aren’t poor. Or, to use an example that’s relevant to myself, as a PhD student my income probably sits in the bottom quintile, and yet I can expect a much higher income after I graduate. The major factor in both income inequality and wealth inequality (measured by current assets and not expected earnings) is age. Teenagers earn little or nothing, but they grow into adults and gain skills and education, their incomes rise, and they gain wealth through savings. Even if everyone had the same lifetime earnings, there would still be significant inequality in any given year since some people would be young low-earners, while others would be older, wealthier high-earners. And since the older people would have had the chance to accumulate wealth over a lifetime, they would have twenty times the wealth of their younger counterparts. While there is a correlation between wealth and power, that correlation is by no means perfect. David gives the example of Bill Gates who discovered the hard way that when you have too little political influence, it can be costly. Gates was hit with a long and costly antitrust suit, after which he greatly expanded his lobbying efforts; he had learned his lesson. David agrees with Joseph Stiglitz’ argument (http://amzn.to/1LT9dDC), to some extent, that large accumulations of wealth are the result of rent seeking. Local governments restrict the building of new homes and developments that could expand the supply of housing. Thus, they keep real estate prices artificially high to the benefit of those who already own their homes. This is an example of successful rent seeking by homeowners to the detriment of non-homeowners. However, while Stiglitz would argue that this justifies a higher tax rate on the wealthy, David prefers the more direct solution of simply reducing or removing these restrictions. The following are also mentioned in this episode: Wealth Inequality in America (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPKKQnijnsM) Piketty and Saez vs. Burkhauser and Cornell: Who’s right on income inequality and stagnation? (https://www.aei.org/publication/piketty-and-saez-vs-burkhauser-and-cornell-whos-right-on-income-inequality-and-stagnation/) Income and Wealth by Alan Reynolds (http://amzn.to/1LOy1Ma) The Boskin Commission (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boskin_Commission) Myths of Rich and Poor by W. Michael Cox and Richard Alm (http://amzn.to/1NOvEYR) Mark J. Perry on individual income inequality (https://www.aei.org/publication/sorry-krugman-piketty-and-stiglitz-income-inequality-for-individual-americans-has-been-flat-for-more-than-50-years/) Greg Mankiw’s favourite textbook (http://amzn.to/1Rihq8j) Bernie Madoff (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_Madoff) The McCulloch chainsaw (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_P._McCulloch) Lyndon B. Johnson (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyndon_B._Johnson) David’s review of Capital in the 21st Century for Regulation (http://object.cato.org/sites/cato.org/files/serials/files/regulation/2014/10/regulationv37n3-9.pdf) David’s (unexpectedly) controversial EconLog post about ordinal utility (http://econlog.econlib.org/archives/2015/05/tyler_cowen_on_14.html) Robert Solow’s review of Capital in the 21st Century (http://www.newrepublic.com/article/117429/capital-twenty-first-century-thomas-piketty-reviewed) Matthew Rognlie’s response to Piketty (http://www.newrepublic.com/article/117429/capital-twenty-first-century-thomas-piketty-reviewed) and Randal O’Toole’s comment on Rognlie’s response (http://www.cato.org/blog/housing-wealth-inequality) Branko Milanović’s blog on global inequality (http://glineq.blogspot.ca/) David’s article on The Bottom One Percent (http://www.hoover.org/research/bottom-one-percent) Peter Jaworski (http://explore.georgetown.edu/people/pj87/?action=viewpublications&PageTemplateID=360 Is Government the Source of Monopoly? By Yale Brozen (http://amzn.to/1HdvyI0)

Today on the Larry Kudlow Show, Larry talks with Senator Pat Toomey (R-PA). Also on the show is Steve Entin, Senior Fellow at the Tax Foundation. More great guests include Bob Doll, Chief Equity Strategist & Senior Portfolio Manager at Nuveen Asset Management, along with Brian Kelly, author of NEW BOOK: "The Bitcoin Big Bang: How Alternative Currencies Are About To Change the World." Alan Reynolds, economist and senior fellow at Cato Institute also joins the show. As always, the great money/politics panel with James Pethokoukis, Steve Moore, and John McIntyre. All this and much more on The Larry Kudlow Show!

Today on the Larry Kudlow Show, Larry talks with Senator Pat Toomey (R-PA). Also on the show is Steve Entin, Senior Fellow at the Tax Foundation. More great guests include Bob Doll, Chief Equity Strategist & Senior Portfolio Manager at Nuveen Asset Management, along with Brian Kelly, author of NEW BOOK: "The Bitcoin Big Bang: How Alternative Currencies Are About To Change the World." Alan Reynolds, economist and senior fellow at Cato Institute also joins the show. As always, the great money/politics panel with James Pethokoukis, Steve Moore, and John McIntyre. All this and much more on The Larry Kudlow Show!

Today on the Larry Kudlow Show, Larry talks with Senator Pat Toomey (R-PA). Also on the show is Steve Entin, Senior Fellow at the Tax Foundation. More great guests include Bob Doll, Chief Equity Strategist & Senior Portfolio Manager at Nuveen Asset Management, along with Brian Kelly, author of NEW BOOK: "The Bitcoin Big Bang: How Alternative Currencies Are About To Change the World." Alan Reynolds, economist and senior fellow at Cato Institute also joins the show. As always, the great money/politics panel with James Pethokoukis, Steve Moore, and John McIntyre. All this and much more on The Larry Kudlow Show!

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