Juvenalia
225 episodes - English - Latest episode: 12 days ago - ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsJuvenalia is a pop culture nostalgia show where Alan Maguire, Sarah Maria Griffin, and Andrea Cleary invite interesting people to tell them about something they were obsessed with when they were young; how they felt about it then and how they feel about it now. We've talked about books, films, tv shows, musicians, computer games; we're interested in it all! It's nice, you'll like it.
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191: Space Jam with Richy Craven
April 18, 2024 05:00 - 1 hour - 93.5 MBWELCOME TO THE JAM. Author Richy Craven joins us to talk about the biggest Michael Jordan/Looney Tunes crossover event of 1996, Space Jam. We also find time to talk about Tom Cruise’s love of cinema as is only right and proper. It’s a good time. Richy is @RichyCraven. His debut novel Spirit Level is out April 25th. Alan is @alan_maguire. Juvenalia is his main thing right now but he’s doing a bit of stand up here and there. Andrea @AndreaCleary_. Her other podcasts are My Favourite Album ...
190: The Mask with Tim Platt
March 21, 2024 05:00 - 1 hour - 120 MBComedian Tim Platt from Rude Tales Of Magic and Oh These Those Stars Of Space joins us to talk about the impact that Jim Carrey and The Mask had on him as a child. We talk about Carrey’s performance and Cameron Diaz and Milo The Dog and the special effects of course but also about figuring out your artistic vocation, The Mask as alcohol, Man On The Moon, and the editorial biases of Edge City’s newspapers. It’s a good time. Tim is @TimothyPlatt. He stars in Rude Tales Of Magic and Oh These T...
189: The OC with Jessa Hastings
March 06, 2024 00:00 - 1 hour - 97.5 MBWelcome to The OC bitch! Jessa Hastings, author of the Magnolia Parks Universe books, joins us as we put on our collared t-shirts and huge belts to talk about The OC! We talk about how Adam Brody changed nerds forever, finding Marissa annoying, Sandy and Kirsten, the music, the clothes, and how The OC is directly responsible for the scripted reality explosion of the mid-noughties. It’s a good time. Jessa is @jessa.hastings. The latest book in the Magnolia Parks Universe, Into The Dark, is o...
188: Interview With The Vampire with Sophia Cadogan
February 15, 2024 11:34 - 1 hour - 99.9 MBComedian Sophia Cadogan joins us to talk about 1994’s Interview With The Vampire. We talk about the hair, and the necks, and the blood. But also about Kirsten Dunst’s amazing performance. We try to figure out why the coffins are important. We admire Brad PItt’s character’s action-oriented problem-solving methods (setting fire to everything all of the time). We had a lot of fun. You will too probably? You can find Sophia everywhere at @SophiaCadogan. Her new show Princess Melancholy is on 17...
187: Robin Williams with Alexandra Haddow
February 01, 2024 00:21 - 57 minutes - 78.9 MBComedian Alexandra Haddow joins us as we try to talk about how much we love Robin Williams without crying Alexandra is @MissAHaddow. She’s on tour right NOW. You can find all the info right here. Alan is @alan_maguire. He does a bit of standup but Juvenalia is his main thing right now. Sarah is @griffski. Her books are in all good bookshops. Her newsletter is at griffnotes.ghost.io Thank you to Dee McDonnell for our artwork. We have a Patreon! You can get bonus episodes including ...
186: This Is Spinal Tap with Pat Finnerty
January 18, 2024 04:30 - 1 hour - 85.6 MBWelcome to our first proper episode of 2024. If you listened to our Weezer episode or our Patreon episodes then you know that Andrea and Alan are big fans of Pat Finnerty. Pat makes a fantastic youtube series called What Makes This Song Stink. We were delighted when he agreed to appear on the show and even more delighted when he picked Spinal Tap. P.S. there’s a bit near the end where Pat says U2 but we misheard him and thought he said YouTube so if you’re wondering why we suddenly start t...
Twixmas 2023
January 02, 2024 23:41 - 51 minutes - 70.9 MBHappy Weird Inbetweeny Bit of the year where nothing’s really happening. We realised that people don’t get around to Christmas episodes of podcasts until January so we just talked about some non-Christmassy things we’d been watching lately. We also did our Off Menu menus just for the hell of it. We’re going to take a break for a couple of weeks while we get everything lined up for 2024 but we’ll back soon. Thanks for sticking around. Alan, Sarah, and Andrea. Alan is @alan_maguire. Juvena...
185: The Nightmare Before Christmas with Meagan Hyland
December 10, 2023 13:54 - 54 minutes - 75.5 MBWhat’s this? What’s this? Meg Hyland’s back to talk to us about The Nightmare Before Christmas. We were going to rewrite all the lyrics to What’s This to be about the podcast but literally none of the words associated with this podcast scan with the meter of the song so instead just listen to the episode. It’s about creative burnout, and mall goths, and passing the wierd parts of yourself onto younger relatives. Meagan is @meghyland. She’s extremely talented, follow her. Alan is @alan_mag...
184: Mighty Morphin Power Rangers with Andy Gaffney
November 21, 2023 23:41 - 1 hour - 90.3 MBAward-winning podcaster Andy Gaffney returns to Juvenalia to stun us with the depth and breadth of his Power Rangers knowledge. We talk about b-sides of Power Rangers singles, the two Rita Repulsas, Power Rangers Live In The Point Depot Dublin, Jedward(?), and lots, lots more. PS There’s a little bit of talk about Santa, so if you listen to Juvenalia around believers, it might be better to keep this one for later. Andy is @BeGrandAndy. His current project is the podcast Promenade which is ...
183: Pride And Prejudice (1995) with Lauren Bravo
November 04, 2023 18:37 - 54 minutes - 74.9 MBAuthor and journalist Lauren Bravo joins us to discuss in a most genteel aspect the 1995 BBC adaptation of Pride and Prejudice. The Colin Firth one. Much like Mr. Darcy and the lake, we dive right in to talking about wet shirts and sideburns. But we eventually talk about other things too. Lauren is @LaurenBravo everywhere. Her debut novel Preloved is out now. Alan is @alan_maguire. He does a bit of standup but Juvenalia is his main thing really. Sarah is @griffski. Her books are in al...
182: Ru Paul's Drag Race with Jenny Maguire
October 15, 2023 22:20 - 1 hour - 88.2 MBJenny Maguire is one of the co-ordinators of Trans And Intersex Pride Dublin and she’s been obsessively watching Drag Race since she was eleven years old so it seemed only right that she came on Juvenalia to talk to us all about it. Alan is a former big fan who’s fallen off a bit and Andrea watched her first season of Drag Race for this episode. It was a good mix, we had a good time. (we had some zoom issues so sorry if some of ther audio is a little wonky) Jenny is @JennyMaguir. You can l...
Bonus: Started/Finished #22
September 21, 2023 05:00 - 36 minutes - 50.7 MBHello, everybody's scheduled got all messed up so we didn't get a chance to record a new episode this week. We thought you might like to check out our Patreon-only bonus series Started/Finished where we, guess what, talk about what we've started and finished lately. In this one from earlier this year, Alan and Sarah talk about Citizen Sleeper, Tunic, Piranesi, Pokerface, and Chris Ware. We hope you like it and we'll be back with a regular episode in two weeks. Started/Finished is a looser ...
181: Landfill Indie with Marty Ryan
September 08, 2023 19:05 - 1 hour - 108 MBMarty Ryan of Limerick band Anna’s Anchor joins us as we dive into the sweaty indie night in 2006 to talk about landfill indie. All the greats are mentioned, The View, The Pigeon Detectives, The Wombats. We also try to figure out what makes a landfill indie band and take some time to mention the bands that get lumped into that genre that we still actually like quite a lot like The Futureheads and Maximo Park. Marty is the frontman of Anna’s Anchor. Their new album The Merries is out now o...
180: Death Cab For Cutie's Plans with Miranda Reinert
August 26, 2023 00:10 - 50 minutes - 69.4 MBWriter and podcaster Miranda Reinert joins us to talk about Death Cab For Cutie’s 2005 album Plans. We talk about how it fits into the Death Cab discography, Steely Dan Dads, re-engaging with your teenage earnestness, The Postal Service, Seth Cohen, and more. Miranda is @mirandareinert. She co-hosts the podcast Endless Scroll and her newsletter Step One Of A Plan is at mirandareinert.com Alan is @alan_maguire. Juvenalia is his main thing right now. Andrea @AndreaCleary_. Her other podcas...
179: The Princess Bride with Aoife Barry
August 10, 2023 04:00 - 58 minutes - 80.8 MBWriter and broadcaster Aoife Barry returns to the podcast and she’s brought one of the big topics, one we assumed would have come up at some point in the previous 178 episodes but it’s here now and that’s the important thing. It’s Rob Reiner’s The Princess Bride! We enthuse wildly about the film before jumping into a discussion about the types of films Hollywood is willing to make now. It’s a great hour. Aoife is @SweetOblivion26. Aoife’s book Social Capital, which is excellent, is out now....
178: Show And Tell
July 27, 2023 04:00 - 43 minutes - 59.1 MBWe thought it might be nice if we got all three of us on the same episode for once to tell each other about something we thought the others might not know about. Sarah told us about the Tower Of The Sun in Osaka. Alan told us about Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter’s Long Earth series, and Andrea told us about Ryan Gosling’s 2009 folk-horror-doo wop album Dead Man’s Bones. We hope you like it. This is the thing Sarah’s talking about here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tower_of_the_Sun Al...
177: Hot Fuzz with Peter McGann
July 13, 2023 23:21 - 59 minutes - 81.4 MBComedian Peter McGann returns to Juvenalia and he’s brought us one of our favourite films, Hot Fuzz! How thoughtful of him. We talk about scripted vs improv comedy, Edgar Wright’s style and his imitators, the wonder of Nick Frost, and lots more. We had fun, we hope you like it. Peter is @peterjmcgann. He’s on tour in September with his show Great Lad. You should go see it. Tickets are here Alan is @alan_maguire. He does a bit of standup but Juvenalia is his main thing right now. Sarah i...
176: Weezer with Allegra Frank
June 29, 2023 10:22 - 1 hour - 105 MBThe Daily Beast’s Allegra Frank joins us for a wide-ranging discussion about Weezer! Allegra is a longtime superfan of all Weezer, Alan and Andrea are longtime superfans of early Weezer so it was a good chance to explore the bits of Weezer that we maybe haven’t given a fair shake over the years. It really was a joy to get a chance to have a big long talk about Weezer. Allegra is @LegsFrank. You can find her work at The Daily Beast. Alan is @alan_maguire. Juvenalia is his main thing right n...
175: The Silence Of The Lambs with Elaine Feeney
June 15, 2023 17:14 - 1 hour - 108 MBAuthor Elaine Feeney joins Alan and Sarah to talk about Jonathan Demme’s 1991 Oscar-sweeping, pop cultural juggernaut, The Silence Of The Lambs. We talk about the complicated and controversial legacy of Buffalo Bill, looking Clarice in the eyes, our favourite shots, the magic of Jodie Foster and Anthony Hopkins, and Elaine tells us about showing scary films to her kids. It’s a good one. Elaine is @ElaineFeeney16. Her latest novel How To Build A Boat is out now. Alan is @alan_maguire. He ...
174: Chicken Run with Ally Ryan
June 01, 2023 04:19 - 1 hour - 98.8 MBComedian Ally Ryan joins us to talk about Aardman Animation’s first feature film, Chicken Run (2000). We talk about feminism, communes, revolution, loads of stuff. We surprised ourselves at how much we took from it really. It was a good time. Ally is @UpYourAllyRyan. You can find all her upcoming gigs there. Alan is @alan_maguire. He does a bit of standup but Juvenalia is his main thing right now. Sarah is @griffski. Her books are in all good bookshops. Her newsletter is at griffnote...
173: Britpop with Michael Orange aka Feather Beds
May 18, 2023 03:00 - 53 minutes - 72.8 MBPARKLIFE, SunshEEEine, and so forth. We’re talking about the cultural juggernaut (for approximately five years) that was Britpop with Michael Orange aka Feather Beds. We talk about Blur v Oasis, Ocean Colour Scene deep cuts, and try to figure out if The Bends was Britpop. Along the way we take diversions into No Disco, 120 Minutes, and City Pop. Michael is @Feather_Beds. His new album Softer Measures is out May 26th. Alan is @alan_maguire. He does a bit of standup but Juvenalia is his ma...
172: Avatar: The Last Airbender with Amy Clarkin
April 13, 2023 21:06 - 1 hour - 90.3 MBYip Yip! We’re talking about Avatar: The Last Airbender with author Amy Clarkin. Avatar is so good! Alan and Sarah had not watched Avatar before this but now they would die for Aang and the gang. Did we talk about the one specific thing that you think is important about Avatar? Maybe! We talked about a lot of things so hopefully your thing is one of them. Amy is @amyclarkinwrites. Her debut novel What Walks These Halls is out RIGHT NOW Alan is @alan_maguire. Juvenalia is his main thing rig...
171: Silent Alarm with Carly Monardo
March 30, 2023 04:00 - 1 hour - 113 MBArtist and podcaster Carly Monardo returns to us for the third time and this time we’ve got a doozy. We’re talking about Bloc Party’s debut album Silent Alarm (2005). We talked a lot about being twenty. It’s very much about being twenty and working in Urban Outfitters, and discovering things for yourself. We also took a slight detour to deliver a pep talk about following your dreams and making that thing. This is a good one, you’ll like it. Carly is @whirringblender. She stars in Rude Tales...
171: Bloc Party's Silent Alarm with Carly Monardo
March 30, 2023 04:00 - 1 hour - 113 MBArtist and podcaster Carly Monardo returns to us for the third time and this time we’ve got a doozy. We’re talking about Bloc Party’s debut album Silent Alarm (2005). We talked a lot about being twenty. It’s very much about being twenty and working in Urban Outfitters, and discovering things for yourself. We also took a slight detour to deliver a pep talk about following your dreams and making that thing. This is a good one, you’ll like it. Carly is @whirringblender. She stars in Rude Tales...
Bonus Birthday Episode: Started/Finished 15
March 23, 2023 11:42 - 1 hour - 90.5 MBWe're seven years old today! To celebrate, we decided to put one of our Patreon-only episodes up for everybody. On our bonus series Started/Finished, we talk about what we've started and finished lately. On this one from Jul 2022, Alan and Andrea talk about Stranger Things, Elena Ferrante, Disney Cruise Youtube Walkthroughs, and the Portal games. One of these things turned into an extended discussion about Weezer and Pat Finnerty. You'll never guess which one. Started/Finished is usually o...
170: Coraline with Tara Anand
March 16, 2023 04:00 - 51 minutes - 71.1 MBPainter and Illustrator Tara Anand joins us to talk about Henry Selick and Neil Gaiman’s Coraline which you should go watch immediately if you haven’t because it’s stunning. We talk about the similarities in Irish and Indian ghosts, making small things, mothers, and lots more. This is a good one. You can see Tara’s incredible work at @taraanandart. The Tiger's Tale, illustrated by Tara and written by Catherine Barr is out April 13th 2023. Alan is @alan_maguire. Juvenalia is his main thing...
169: Star Wars with Becky Cheatle
March 02, 2023 15:03 - 1 hour - 105 MBComedian, screenwriter, and director Becky Cheatle joins us as we take another look at Star Wars! Becky’s experience of them is different since she actually saw the originals in the cinema, an experience cruelly denied to current Star Wars people. We also talk about the time the actual Darth Vader made an instore appearance in a Waterford shopping centre. It’s a good time, you'll like it. Becky is @Becky.Cheatle. You should go see her do standup, she’s great. Alan is @alan_maguire. Juvenali...
168: The N64 (especially Goldeneye) with Dashoda
February 17, 2023 07:00 - 57 minutes - 78.8 MBMusician Gavin McDermott aka Dashoda joins Alan and Sarah for a big talk about the console that gave us Ocarina Of Time, Mario 64, and Goldeneye, amongst other classics, Nintendo’s N64. We talked about all of them but we found ourselves coming back again and again to Goldeneye. Alan was a Sega child so this was an educational week for him. Sarah is, of course, 1/4 Nintendo so had lots to talk about with Gavin. Dashoda is @DashodaMusic. Dashoda will release his debut EP Never Enough on Wedne...
167: Lord Of The Rings with Jonathan Victory
February 02, 2023 16:38 - 56 minutes - 77.6 MBComedian and filmmaker Jonathan Victory joins us to talk about Peter Jackson’s Lord Of The Rings trilogy. We cover as much of it as possible: Gollum, Eowyn, Aragorn opening those big doors in The Two Towers, and also Jonathan’s documentary about his trip to the filming locations in New Zealand, A Far Green Country. (international link) Jonathan is @VictoryContent. His Scene + Heard show Elementaller is in Smock Alley on Feb 11th + 12th. Tickets Alan is @alan_maguire. Juvenalia is his main ...
The Juvenalia Christmas Latetacular 2022
January 04, 2023 01:30 - 1 hour - 106 MBOk, so we definitely thought we had this scheduled to go up over Christmas but we just came back from our holidays and it turns out we messed up. Sorry. You’re probably still making your way through all the Christmas specials from other podcasts anyway so what’s one more eh? Alan and Sarah have never seen It’s A Wonderful Life. Sarah and Cassie have never seen Die Hard. Alan, Sarah AND Andrea have never seen The Holiday so we decided to watch all of them and see what the fuss was about. (Sp...
166: Winter Recs 2022 with Alan and Sarah
December 08, 2022 05:30 - 47 minutes - 65.6 MBIt’s the winter time do we’ve got some more recommendations for you. Not, I repeat, not Christmas recommendations. You have to follow your own bliss at Christmas. No, instead Alan and Sarah are here to talk about things that feel wintery-but-not-Christmassy to them. Things like Windwaker, Sigur Ros’s (), Mulled Wine and Nigella’s Roast Chicken, Twin Peaks, and Mount Eerie. Extremely un-festive we’re sure you’ll agree. Alan is @alan_maguire. Juvenalia is his main thing right now. Sarah is @...
165: Breaking The Magician's Code with Roger O'Sullivan
November 24, 2022 04:30 - 1 hour - 89.8 MBPodcaster and comedian Roger O’Sullivan joins us for an absolute trip back into 90s early evening weekend telly as we revisit Breaking The Magician’s Code: Magic’s Biggest Secrets Finally Revealed or as everybody actually called it The Masked Magician. We had a blast. Roger is @RogerOSullivan. His co-hosts Unexplained Legends, it’s very good. Alan is @alan_maguire. Juvenalia is his main thing right now. Andrea @AndreaCleary_. Her other podcasts are My Favourite Album With Andrea Cleary an...
164: Theatre Kids with Rachael Krishna
November 10, 2022 05:00 - 1 hour - 83.6 MBRachael Krishna is back! We had such a great time talking to her about Joseph And The Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat last year that we knew we had to bring her back so we could all talk about all of our juvenile theatre experiences. Between us we covered most of 20th century musicals history, from How To Succeed In Business to Grease to adaptations of Animal Farm written by a drama teacher. Rachael is @RachaelKrishna. Alan is @alan_maguire. Juvenalia is his main thing right now. Sarah is ...
163: BOOvenalia - Practical Magic with Lydia Ging and Cassie Delaney
November 01, 2022 22:16 - 1 hour - 92.2 MBIt's the final episode of BOOvenalia and it's the best one! Producer Cassie and girlfriend Lydia join us to chat about the most wonderful autumnal magical art that is Practical Magic. Starring Nicole Kidman and Sandra Bullock, Practical Magic chronicles the lives of witchy sisters Sally and Gillian Owens. Raised by their aunts after their parents' death from a family curse, the sisters were taught the uses of practical magic as they grew up. As adults, Sally and Gillian must use their mag...
162: BOOvenalia - The Texas Chain Saw Massacre with Sophie White
October 20, 2022 04:00 - 57 minutes - 79.2 MBThings are really getting spooky now as Sophie White joins us to talk about one of the most influential horror films of all time, Tobe Hooper’s The Texas Chain Saw Massacre. Alan and Sophie both saw TTCSM at way too young an age so we have a good chat about that and lots of other stuff. If you’ve seen it before then you know that we’re going to be talking about some heavy stuff. If you haven’t then consider this a Content Warning for violence against women for this episode. Sophie is @soph...
161: BOOvenalia - Donnie Darko with Meagan Hyland
October 13, 2022 04:00 - 56 minutes - 77.6 MBt’s mid-October and we’re entering the prime of spooky season so let’s talk about 2001’s Donnie Darko with illustrator Meagan Hyland. If you listen to Juvenalia you probably had a Donnie Darko phase so enjoy! We talk about the vibes, the direction, the depths of our obsession with the film and we take a spirited stab at developing a holistic theory of the ending. It was a joy. Meagan is @meaganhyland. You can see her amazing work including her Sparkle Motion print at meaganhyland.com Alan ...
160: BOOvenalia 2022 #1 - Hocus Pocus with Andrea Cleary
October 06, 2022 04:00 - 51 minutes - 70.5 MBWooooOOOOOoooooo, it’s the spooky season so we’re going weekly for all of October and we’ll be covering a different Halloween-related film every week. This week, Alan and Andrea are talking about the 1993 cult classic Hocus Pocus! It’s very fun. Alan is @alan_maguire. Juvenalia is his main thing right now. Andrea @AndreaCleary_. Her podcasts are My Favourite Album With Andrea Cleary and The Nialler9 Podcast. Thank you to Dee McDonnell for our artwork. We have a Patreon! You can get bonus...
160: Boovenalia - Hocus Pocus with Andrea Cleary
October 06, 2022 04:00 - 51 minutes - 70.5 MBWooooOOOOOoooooo, it’s the spooky season so we’re going weekly for all of October and we’ll be covering a different Halloween-related film every week. This week, Alan and Andrea are talking about the 1993 cult classic Hocus Pocus! It’s very fun. Alan is @alan_maguire. Juvenalia is his main thing right now. Andrea @AndreaCleary_. Her podcasts are My Favourite Album With Andrea Cleary and The Nialler9 Podcast. Thank you to Dee McDonnell for our artwork. We have a Patreon! You can get bonus...
160: BOOvenalia - Hocus Pocus with Andrea Cleary
October 06, 2022 04:00 - 51 minutes - 70.5 MBWooooOOOOOoooooo, it’s the spooky season so we’re going weekly for all of October and we’ll be covering a different Halloween-related film every week. This week, Alan and Andrea are talking about the 1993 cult classic Hocus Pocus! It’s very fun. Alan is @alan_maguire. Juvenalia is his main thing right now. Andrea @AndreaCleary_. Her podcasts are My Favourite Album With Andrea Cleary and The Nialler9 Podcast. Thank you to Dee McDonnell for our artwork. We have a Patreon! You can get bonus...
159: Autumn Recommendations with Alan and Sarah
September 24, 2022 14:02 - 46 minutes - 64.2 MBIt’s the pre-spooky season and we’ve picked some games, music, tv, and food that pairs perfectly with the interesting leaf season. This is a little bit of a different one for us but we hope you like it! Alan is @alan_maguire. Juvenalia is his main thing right now. Sarah is @griffski. Her books are in all good bookshops.Thank you to Dee McDonnell for our artwork. We have a Patreon! You can get bonus episodes including our fortnightly show Started/Finished where we talk about the pop cultur...
158: Yu-Gi-Oh with Felix O'Connor
September 08, 2022 22:20 - 1 hour - 100 MBStandup comedian Felix O’Connor joins us to talk about the manga/anime/card game behemoth Yu-Gi-Oh! We had a great time diving into what makes Yu-Gi-Oh! different from the other Japanese cartoons that broke through to Western audiences in the late 90s/early 2000s and some of the idiosyncrasies of localisation in Yu-Gi-Oh! Felix is @FelixirOfLife28. He hosts the podcast Not Trans Trans Movies and the monthly comedy night Token Straight which is part of the Hysteria Collective Alan is @alan_...
157: Chris Cornell with Carlo Magliocco
August 25, 2022 02:31 - 59 minutes - 81.3 MBSinger-songwriter Carlo Magliocco joins Alan and Andrea to talk about Soundgarden and Audioslave frontman Chris Cornell. We talk about how Cornell was always more then the stereotypical rock frontman that a casual look at his work might lead you to believe, the thought and intentionality of his solo shows, and Carlo tells us about the time he got to meet the man himself. Carlo is @Carlo_Magliocco. His album Calendar is on Spotify. Alan is @alan_maguire. Juvenalia is his main thing right no...
156: Adrian Mole with Emer McLysaght
August 11, 2022 03:00 - 1 hour - 90.6 MBEmer McLysaght, one half of the Oh My God What A Complete Aisling books and our fifth ever guest returns to talk to us about the Adrian Mole series. Emer was obsessed with all of the Adrian Mole books as a youngster, Alan read and loved the first one as a child but then got distracted by Terry Pratchett and never returned, and Andrea read The Secret Diary Of for the first time for this episode so we’re really covering what we in the Juvenalia business call “The Experience Gamut” Emer is @E...
155: Pretty In Pink with Charlene Lydon - Live at the Lighthouse Cinema, Dublin
July 28, 2022 18:55 - 1 hour - 90.8 MBThe Lighthouse Cinema very kindly asked us to do a live episode as part of their Not Another Teen Season and we said absolutely yes of course we will. Alan and Andrea talked to the programmer at the Lighthouse, Charlene Lydon, about Pretty In Pink and we got into it. We had a long, enjoyable chat about every aspect of the film: the music, the dress, Harry Dean Stanton, Annie Potts, all the important stuff. There was one Team Duckie person in the audience, one Team Steff, and everybody else ...
154: That's So Raven with Ashley Manning
July 14, 2022 23:56 - 57 minutes - 78.8 MBComedian, Podcaster, and Twitch streamer Ashley Manning joins us to talk about one of the biggest Disney Channel shows of all time, That’s So Raven. We talk about Raven-Symoné’s amazing physical comedy, Anneliese van der Pol’s amazing voice, the Undercover Superstar episode which indirectly led to High School Musical, the show’s willingness to tackle big issues like body image and race head-on in a way other early noughties shows didn’t, and lots more. Ashley is @AManComedian. She co-hosts ...
153: Jacqueline Wilson with Kirsty Capes
July 01, 2022 00:07 - 53 minutes - 73.8 MBWomen’s Prize longlisted author Kirsty Capes joins us to talk about the books of Jacqueline Wilson. We focused on three in particular, The Story Of Tracy Beaker, The Illustrated Mum, and Lola Rose but the conversation took in a lot more than that. We talked about Jacqueline Wilson’s fearlessness, how the topics in her books intersected with Kirsty’s life, and about Kirsty’s PhD which was about depictions of care homes in fiction. It was a fascinating chat. Kirsty is @kirstycapes. Her latest...
152: Scream with Conor Behan
June 16, 2022 00:17 - 57 minutes - 79.1 MBDJ and host of Housewives And Me Conor Behan returns to Juvenalia to talk about Scream. We talked about Scream way back in episode 8 but we’ve had a whole Scream Requel since then and we’re all different people now so we thought it was worth a revisit. We talked about brand activations, lens flare, press junket misdirects, the requel, and lots more. This episode came out before it was revealed that Neve Campbell would not be returning for Scream 6. Hopefully some day soon Neve Campbell will...
151: Josie and the Pussycats with Aoife O'connor
June 02, 2022 03:00 - 45 minutes - 63.1 MBComedian Aoife O’Connor joins us to talk about 2001’s cult classic consumerism satire/teen drama/fake rock biopic Josie and the Pussycats. We talked about the fashion, the Parker Posey, the Alan Cumming, the absolute bangers that make up the Pussycats’s music, a very serious Josie-inspired crime Aoife committed, and lots more. Aoife has been obsessed with this film since they were ten years old so it was a joy to step inside their Josie-brain. Aoife is @aoifebella. You should go see them do...
150: My Chemical Romance with Eve Belle
May 18, 2022 23:37 - 1 hour - 84.9 MBSinger of sad bops Eve Belle joins us to talk about her intense teenage feelings about My Chemical Romance, being a Donegal emo, misogyny in music, Gerard Way as a gender role model, and her own approach to the aesthetic side of being a musician. Also, Alan makes a startling confession. Eve is @EveBelleSongs. Her brilliant album In Between Moments is out NOW. Alan is @alan_maguire. Juvenalia is his main thing right now. Sarah is @griffski. Her books are in all good bookshops. Thank you t...
149: The Dark Crystal with Josh Winning
May 05, 2022 02:00 - 1 hour - 106 MBAuthor Josh Winning joins us to talk about Jim Henson and Frank Oz’s most challenging creation, The Dark Crystal. Josh’s novel The Shadow Glass has been described as a love letter to Labyrinth and The Dark Crystal so we had a lot to talk about such as The Dark Crystal ‘s let-the-audience-figure-it-out approach to worldbuilding, the depth of that worldbuilding once you get a handle on it, the moments of humour in an otherwise pretty serious film, Jim Henson’s reading habits, the groundbreakin...