1210 - Gone to Amerikay with Derek McCulloch

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🗓️ 29 March 2012

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Join us on a trip through time as seen through the eyes of the Irish as we speak to Derek McCulloch, author of the new Vertigo graphic novel 'Gone to Amerikay'. We discuss the complex story, his work with Colleen Doran, and Irish music. (1:05:18)

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0:00.0	This is Comic Geek Speak, episode 1210, Gone to America with Derek McCullough.
0:06.5	Welcome to the show on my grave on the shows of America.
0:22.2	Welcome to the show.
0:23.3	I'm Brian Christman.
0:24.3	I'm Shane Kelly.
0:25.4	I'm Adam Murdo.
0:26.5	And I'm Mike Gallagher.
0:31.1	I could listen to Irish music all day.
0:32.8	We don't have all day, Shane.
0:33.2	I know.
0:55.6	I have a really good Christmas album of Irish music on my iPod that I listen to. Do you have any Christmas music at the... I actually bought it from the barn. Oh, you did? Yep, see, we've sold many, many copies of that Irish Christmas CD. It's beautiful. It's not just, you know, Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer with pan flutes and such. No, it's actual... You know, Christmas started in Ireland. Did it now?
1:00.2	No, things like Baloo Lemmy and things like that. It's a genuine
1:01.7	authentic Irish Christmas music.
1:06.0	As I've been learning more and more about
1:08.1	my Irish heritage, I've become obnoxious
1:10.1	with this one thing where,
1:11.7	and the original Star Trek,
1:13.9	Chekhov was always saying that, you know,
1:15.9	Shakespeare came from Russia and, you know, everything came from Russia.
1:19.4	So I've been doing that to my 16-year-olds,
1:23.1	that, you know, everything came from Ireland.
1:24.6	And, of course, they believe me.
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