#266 – The Irish Legacy Of The McGuigan Name: Journeying To Find Family Ancestry, Plus The Book You’ve Never Read! With “Superdummy” Paul McGuigan

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!

Video version here: https://youtu.be/r1zW5Heyv6s 

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

Find all of Mike’s social media & other links at https://linktr.ee/GenuineChitChat

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