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CEREBRO

Episode 074: Sean Cassidy (feat. Thom Dunn)

CEREBRO

Connor Goldsmith

Science Fiction, Arts, Books, Visual Arts, Fiction

4.8815 Ratings

🗓️ 11 April 2022

⏱️ 197 minutes

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Summary

In Episode 74 of CEREBRO, Connor and writer/musician Thom Dunn scream to the skies with Sean Cassidy, the belting Banshee! First appearing in the 60s as an unwilling supervillain, Irish spy Sean was recruited to the iconic Giant-Size X-Men team in 1975, fell in love with Moira MacTaggert, and eventually became mentor to Generation X.

The CEREBRO character file on Banshee begins at 1:09:30.

(Content Advisory: Sean's story includes alcohol abuse. This episode also discusses the Irish Troubles.)



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0:00.0

So I've been thinking a lot about these leprechauns.

0:03.5

About the leprechauns?

0:04.5

Yeah.

0:05.5

We were going to have to get to the leprechauns eventually.

0:07.0

We can't ignore the leprechauns.

0:08.5

No.

0:09.0

X-Men.

0:10.0

In the 21st century, people mutants led by Magneto aimed to destroy the world.

0:25.6

Only hope is X-Men.

0:33.3

Welcome to Cerebro, the X-Men podcast, where a homo and his friends dig deep into the history of Homo Superior.

0:39.0

I'm your host, Connor Goldsmith, and with me today is writer and musician Tom Dunn,

0:43.1

who recently released his album of Irish folk music for folk's sake.

0:48.1

It's spelled Irish, though. It's not a swear, I swear.

0:53.6

Right, no, of course, of course. I am thrilled to have you, Tom. How are you doing today?

0:55.8

I'm doing well today, and I'm very, very excited to be here on my favorite podcast. Well, thank you. That's very sweet. You reached out about

1:00.7

doing this show, I want to say, like almost a year and a half ago. Yeah, it's probably a while,

1:05.5

but it was a while and I was just like, I love Banshee. You've got it. It's on the list now, right? But much like Charles Pulliam Moore two weeks ago, or I don't know, here's the thing, guys, I'm behind schedule in March and I'm trying to get a bunch of these. I want to get through season two as quickly as possible into April because I want to actually take my month hiatus. So I am going to probably be

1:28.6

editing these real fast and I don't know how many you're going to get in like a row. But the point

1:33.3

is it's a working vacation in April then. It's fine. Two episodes ago, let's say, well, no, because

1:38.7

in April I have to write the character files for the next like 10 episodes because I want to get

1:42.2

ahead of it. That's the whole thing. Because I have like a real job is the problem in addition to doing this podcast, right?

1:47.3

I do appreciate your ambition. But anyway, like with Charles Pulliam Moore two episodes ago,

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