Meet Your Maker

Meet Your Maker

Meet Your Maker is a show about the people who make the things we love. It’s hosted by Liam Geraghty. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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September 26, 2025 36 mins

Creator of Doug - Jim Jinkins - takes us back to the lightning-strike moment when Nickelodeon green-lit the show, and shares the behind-the-scenes journey of how Doug was born from doodles in a Manhattan loft to becoming one of the very first Nicktoons. From the quirks of animation cels to the stories and characters that defined a generation, Jim reflects on creativity, collaboration, and the lasting legacy of Doug and his world.

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Hey Arnold! creator Craig Bartlett sits down for a conversation about the animation, style and artwork of the cult 90s Nickelodeon show as well as the fate of the animation cels from the series.


Meet Your Maker is produced by Liam Geraghty - www.liamgeraghty.com


Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/meetyourmaker_pod


You can follow Craig Bartlett on https://www.instagram.com/craigbartlett/ and he also has animation cels for...

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Wally Feresten has held cue cards for Saturday Night Live for over 35 years. In this episode, he shares how he turned a behind-the-scenes job into a vital part of live television for the iconic NBC sketch comedy show.


Meet Your Maker is produced by Liam Geraghty - www.liamgeraghty.com


Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/meetyourmaker_pod


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June 23, 2025 32 mins

Liam dives into the strange, weird world of Courage the Cowardly Dog - the cult Cartoon Network show - with creator John R. Dilworth, voice actors Marty Grabstein and Thea White, head writer David Steven Cohen, and composers Jody Gray and Andy Ezrin.


Meet Your Maker is produced by Liam Geraghty - www.liamgeraghty.com


Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/meetyourmaker_pod


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August 10, 2024 36 mins

Liam chats with Tom Lowe, the grandson of British animation legend Bob Godfrey, about looking after his grandfather's archive of animation cels and artwork for shows like Henry's Cat and Roobarb.


Check out the archive here: https://www.henrys-cat.art/


Meet Your Maker is produced by Liam Geraghty


Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/meetyourmaker_pod


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July 18, 2024 14 mins

Richard Collier has gone from playing with toys to collecting them to now making them. He creates custom art toys of niche Irish pop culture resulting in actions figures of everyone from Pint Man to Peig Sayers.


Check out Richard's work at: https://www.instagram.com/hibernotoys/


Meet Your Maker is produced by Liam Geraghty


Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/meet_your_maker_podcast/


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July 3, 2023 27 mins

Rosemary Mac Cabe's first book - This Is Not About You - is a life story in a series of love stories. On today's episode she sits down for a conversation on how to write a very personal book.

You can order a copy from Easons, Kenny's and all good book shops.

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February 6, 2023 21 mins
In writer/director Robbie Banfitch's found footage film The Outwaters - four travelers encounter menacing phenomena while camping in a remote stretch of the Mojave Desert. In this episode Liam chats to Robbie about making the film.

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January 14, 2022 28 mins
Doc and his dog Sprocket from Jim Henson's Fraggle Rock are two of the most beloved characters on television. On this episode we tell the story of the actor who played Doc - Gerry Parkes. We look at his journey from Dublin to Canada through theatre, film & TV with a little help from his family and co-star Steve Whitmire - puppeteer of Sprocket and Kermit the Frog.

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May 15, 2021 13 mins

A sculpture of an Irish fairy creature leads to trouble in a small town.

Meet Your Maker is produced & hosted by Liam Geraghty.

Theme music is by Breakmaster Cylinder.

Additional music in this episode was by Blue Dot Sessions.

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Meet Your Maker is a founding member of The Warren - the home of great Irish podcasts.


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March 16, 2021 23 mins

Irish cartoonist Luke Healy grew up obsessed with America and goes in search of the American experience on a 147-day, 2660-mile-long hike across the Pacific Crest Trail.

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Meet Your Maker is produced & hosted by Liam Geraghty.

Theme music is by Breakmaster Cylinder.

Additional music in this episode by Blue Dot Sessions and Louie Zong.

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September 15, 2020 30 mins
Cartoon Saloon founders Tomm Moore, Nora Twomey and Paul Young tell the story of the Kilkenny animation studio behind Oscar nominated films The Secret of Kells, Song of the Sea, The Breadwinner and now Wolfwalkers.

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July 14, 2020 18 mins

Global pop sensation CMAT on launching her music during a pandemic, living with her grandparents and taking inspiration from Rodney Dangerfield.

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July 7, 2020 42 mins

Just as he was poised to take over from Disney's Nine Old Men Don Bluth defected, set up a rival company and moved it to Ireland in the 80s. There he created animated classics like An American Tail, The Land Before Time and All Dogs Go to Heaven and helped kick start the Irish animation industry.

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Produced and hosted by Liam Geraghty

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June 10, 2020 22 mins

A chat with a poet, an artist, a cartoonist and an illustrator about creativity during Covid.

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Twitter: www.twitter.com/meetyourmakerie

This weeks guests are: Poet Emily S. Cooper in Donegal. Twitter: https://twitter.com/Emily_S_Cooper

Illustrator, designer and book author Charlot Kristensen's graphic novel What We Don't Talk About is available for pre-order at Ave...

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May 26, 2020 29 mins

How do you make a TV show during a pandemic? The classic Jim Henson children's series Fraggle Rock has returned with all new episodes shot entirely from home. We speak to puppeteers Dave Goelz, Karen Prell and John Tartaglia about returning to Fraggle Rock and shooting on iPhone.

Dave Goelz is a puppeteer who performs Gonzo the Great, Bunsen Honeydew, Beauregard, Zoot, Boober Fraggle and many other characters from The Muppet Show, ...

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May 7, 2020 6 mins

Throughout COVID19 one video game has been helping people get through all this - Animal Crossing.

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March 10, 2020 19 mins

Often called the founding father of Irish animation, Jimmy Murakami was behind some of the most iconic animation of all time from The Snowman to When the Wind Blows not to mention his work on the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

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February 10, 2020 12 mins

Pioneer of Irish animation Aidan Hickey on cut out animation, Bosco and dental surgeries...

Part 2 of Animation Island - a new mini-series from Meet Your Maker that tells the story of the Irish animation industry.

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January 29, 2020 26 mins

Animation Island is a new mini-series from Meet Your Maker that tells the story of the Irish animation industry.

Episode 1 explores Walt Disney's links to Ireland, the oldest surviving piece of Irish animation and one of the first animators in Ireland - Gunther Wulff.

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