Welcome to Roon Soup, a podcast about Magic, Culture and the Paranormal, coming to you from Sunny West London.

My name is Gordon and I shall be your host. Enjoy.

Today on Roon Soup.

Today on Roon Soup we are speaking to a cult historian and expatriate Englishman in New York

aka the real Sherlock Holmes aka Dr Alex Cummins.

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find the show notes and a whole lot more at ruinsoop.com but now let's jump

right on in. What's up Doc Doc? Hello. Yeah, I couldn't resist. No, no, no, it's a rich scene to mine.

Absolutely. All my questions are going to be like I have these confusing medical ailments, you know, it's going to be

80 minutes of me saying there's something wrong in my mid back and I'm not sure what it is.

One of my father's favorite things to point out once I got my doctor,

it was that I would indeed be able to put my hand up

if someone asked for a doctor on a plane but I would also need a rider of several

Olympics and various other retorts and alchemical equipment.

Now we do the I do the same thing with my little brother who's a dentist and we sort of

mime the look of horror on the flight attendant's faces when they realize they've asked for a doctor and

ended up with him. Yeah, little brothers, that's what they're for.

They're for teasing.

Anyway, let us begin with what we would call your superhero origin story Dr. Al. So were you a weird kid?

Hmm, that's an interesting question. in comparison to what I suppose

Maybe yeah a little bit probably I don't know nerdier than weird weird I

I I learned to write my name on, you know, Dungeons and Dragons character sheets with my dad and his friends when I was you know

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