Episode 092: Tom Cassidy (feat. Eoin Higgins)

CEREBRO

Connor Goldsmith

Science Fiction, Arts, Books, Visual Arts, Fiction

4.8 • 815 Ratings

🗓️ 7 December 2022

⏱️ 216 minutes

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Summary

In Episode 92 of CEREBRO, Connor, journalist Eoin Higgins, and Connor's laryngitis toast to Thomas Cassidy, the bombastic Black Tom! The black sheep of Clan Cassidy and devoted partner of the Juggernaut, Tom has been a constant thorn in the side of his cousin Banshee. After decades as an antagonist, he has found new heroic purpose on Krakoa in Ben Percy's X-Force.

The CEREBRO character file on Black Tom begins at 1:09:09.

(Content Advisory: Tom's story includes implied homophobia, ableism, and ethnic prejudice. This episode discusses the Irish Troubles.)

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0:00.0	Kane is his protector and is his caretaker and is the person who always fights to make sure that Tom is okay, as okay as possible.
0:11.0	And unfortunately, Tom is just never that okay.
0:14.0	X-Men, X-Men.
0:16.0	In the 21st century, people mutants led by Magneto aimed to destroy the world
0:23.6	the only hope is X-Men welcome to oh my goodness welcome to oh to Cerebro, the X-Men podcast, where a homo and his friends dig deep into the history of Homo Superior. I'm your host, Connor Goldsmith, and today my voice is really shot. This is going to be kind of a raspy, husky, like Janus Joplin moment on Srebro, and I'm just going to try my best here.
0:56.3	But I am here today with journalist Owen Higgins.
1:00.3	Owen, I was Googling you to like make a bio and put it together.
1:05.5	And unfortunately, your Wikipedia page is about Sir John Patrick Basil Higgins, known as Sir Owen Higgins, who died in 1993
1:12.4	and was a judge of the High Court of Northern Ireland, knighted in 1988.
1:17.0	So that seemed probably not to be you.
1:21.2	Not me.
1:21.9	He was also the target of an unsuccessful IRA bombing.
1:25.8	That part is relevant to the Black Tom of all.
1:30.0	We are here to talk about Thomas Eamon, Cassidy, Black Tom.
1:34.7	I love this character.
1:36.7	He has had a bit of glow up in terms of prominence in the era of Krakawa.
1:42.0	He's a member of X-Force.
1:43.4	It's his first time on one of the
1:45.4	hero teams, like a cure a question mark in the case of X-Force. I'm excited to trace through
1:53.4	his history with you. I'm also excited to have you on the pod. Owen is a respected journalist.
2:00.0	He is a friend of friend of the pod,
2:02.4	Spencer Ackerman, who you all know. Owen, I'd love for you to tell the listeners a little bit about
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