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#266 – The Irish Legacy Of The McGuigan Name: Journeying To Find Family Ancestry, Plus The Book You’ve Never Read! With “Superdummy” Paul McGuigan
Published: 13 April 2025 at 21:57 Europe/London
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Episode notes
Paul McGuigan’s second appearance this month is all about his journey to find out more in his Irish ancestry and ends in a place about an unexpected book!
In more detail, this episode is the second half of Mike & Paul’s recorded conversation, where they talk about Paul’s journey to discover more of his Irish ancestry & heritage and discuss the strangest book you’ve never heard of! Amidst this, they also speak about doomscrolling, blowing up sheds and other tangent-filled topics – this is a great conversation for any & all listeners!
Last week’s episode was the first half of this conversation where Mike & Paul discuss Paul’s hiatus from podcasting and their reading habits, followed by their times respectively getting married in Vegas, previous experiences in America, safe/unsafe in unfamiliar places and more!
All Patreons had this one week early, so for early access and bonus content, consider supporting Mike at www.patreon.com/GenuineChitChat!
Keep up to date with Paul on his website www.Superdummy.co.uk
Paul has narrated a trilogy of books for author Virgil Henry, the first being Academic Inferno of the My Academic Trip Through Adjunct Hell, find on Audible and all usual audiobook providers; www.audible.co.uk/pd/Academic-Inferno-Audiobook/B0F25C2QGN - to hear clips from the audiobook, check out The Salty Professor on any podcast app!
The Pop Culture Collective newsletter; keeping up to date with weekly news from the nerdier side of Pop Culture (& to see what Mike is up to): https://pccnewsletter.com
Paul’s appearance on Alyson Shelton’s Where I’m From with his poem: www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLabhDLwqpk
The book that Paul & Mike mentioned is "The Life and Adventures of Hudy McGuigan", found here if you want to purchase it: https://ballinascreenhistoricalsociety.com
Paul’s podcast Era Of Geek, interviewing people about what it means to them to be a “geek” (Mike’s episode was out January 2022). He also had the shows Superdraft and Superheroes For Dummies on the podcast feed of Comics In Motion!
Paul appeared on Spider-Dan’s pod, talking about Starman: https://episodes.fm/1441247816/episode/N2Q0MzkyN2YtMGY0My00YzExLTkzMmMtNGM5YjM5OTI1ZjQ4
Paul’s last appearance on GCC was Ep 177 for the 50th episode special of his podcast Era Of Geek!
Guest Spots:
Mike recently watched Superman ’78 for the first time and discussed it on the 20th Century Geek: https://pod.fo/e/2bea07
And their discussion on Superman II is also out now! Listen here: https://pod.fo/e/2c614b
Mike was on Reckless Rebellion to talk about Andor’s Prison Arc from S1, listen here: https://pod.fo/e/2c28cc
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