Lemon, your secret love of the Irish is well documented.

After all, I am your mentor, you dated Dennis Duffy, and in the 90s you gave money to the IRA.

I thought it was contributing to a retirement account.

You know, I think someone needs to learn a St. Patrick's Day lesson.

What is that? A curse? Take it back, you witch!

I'm Greta Johnson. I'm Tricia Bobita. And this is the Nerdette podcast. So many of you more perceptive nerdat listeners may notice that normally our episodes come out on like a Tuesday or

Wednesday, but this week we just couldn't help ourselves. With 30 Rock up for its Emmys this

weekend, we were too excited about our conversation with 30 Rock writer Colleen McGinnis, not to share

it with you right away. She was so much fun to nerd out with. As a kid, you know, I started finding movies pretty early on.

I have an older sister who's 10 years older than I am.

Her name's Jane, and she is just the consummate film buff and has great taste.

And she started introducing me to movies like Amadeus when I was like eight, you know, and Hitchcock.

And she was the first person to kind of teach me that a movie is more than just like,

these pictures you're watching and entertainment, you know, like I remember sitting down

with her to watch Amadeus, and she explained to me that, you know, F. Mary Abraham, you know,

won the Oscar, and he was in the stage production,

and, you know, this is an adaptation, and Mules Foreman was the director, and, you know, all about Mozart, and it was just the first time that I ever looked at a movie that way. You know, I just never thought about it, and I didn't know that people had jobs to create what was there. She also told me I couldn't ask any questions which is something that I

still keep now. I create what was there. She also told me I couldn't ask any questions during the movie,

which is something that I still keep now. I feel like I have a real reverence for film,

and it's like if you're going to talk during it, you know, get out, unless it's a terrible

movie and we just want to have commentary on it. But so it was around that time that our family

got a VCR, and we would go to the library, and I would, yeah, rent Hitchcock movies and a lot of Disney movies also, which I think are sort of dark, actually, if you think about it.

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