Juvenalia

Electronic soul artist, songwriter, and producer Laura Keane, better known as ELKAE joins us to talk about an album that had a huge impact on her as a child, Christina Aguilera's Stripped. We try to figure out what makes Aguilera's voice so compelling, the Disney to Edgy pipeline, the message of Beautiful, and a whole lot more. Alan sings, it's a whole thing. Enjoy. ELKAE's new single Girls Like Y...

(CN: Heathers is a dark movie that deals with suicide, murder, homophobia, fatphobia, and eating disorders. We discuss all of those things in this episode so if you need to skip this one we get it.) Sophie White of The Creep Dive and Mother Of Pod returns to Juvenalia to talk about the extremely dark 1989 horror comedy Heathers. We talk about the chemistry of Winona Ryder and Christian Slater, how...

Muireann O’Connell from off the telly joins us to talk about the CLASSIC late nineties reality dating show, Streetmate hosted by Davina McCall. It is an absolute trip going back to a pre-Big Brother and social media reality show where nobody knows all the rules of how to be on TV and we had a blast exploring it. We also had lots to say about turn of the century fashion like Hobo and Nope. And if t...

Writer Rachael Krishna joined us to talk about Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice’s Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. We talked about Donny Osmond, genre experiments, Any Dream Will Do, and a very good chat about musicals based on existing properties. It’s a great episode, we hope you like it. Rachael is @RachaelKrishna on Twitter. You should subscribe to her excellent food newsletter Ha...

It’s a crossover episode! Cassie, Jen, and Sophie from The Creep Dive joined us and we joined them to talk about The Blair Witch Project in the first Tall Tales Big Zoom. We just generally creeped ourselves out, talked about how good Heather Donahue was as Heather, and had a lengthy digression about secrets and Sleep No More. It was an absolute blast.  You can find Cassie, Jen, and Sophie ove...

Fionnuala Jones of Bandwagons and *gestures around* the internet returns to Juvenalia to discuss the other late 90s Japanese monster-based megahit, Digimon. We compare Digimon and Pokémon, discover which Digimon wore jeans, and generally agree that Digimon was excellent and totally deserving of a rewatch.  You can watch Jenna Stoeber's excellent video What If Digimon Had Beaten Pokémon here&n...

Ireland's premier non-binary drag entity Wren Dennehy aka Avoca Reaction joins us to talk about the 90's family film that all 90s family films aspire to be, Mrs. Doubtfire. We talk about gender obviously, the genius of Robin Williams, the underrated performance by Sally Field that GROUNDS THE WHOLE FILM, how good the child actors are, Pierce Brosnan's beautiful face, San Francisco, Harvey Fierstei...

New Year New Us! Not really, we're exactly the same, everything is exactly the same BUT we decided to do things a little differently for our first episode of 2021. Alan, Sarah, and Cassie Delaney all picked the thing that absolutely changed them forever, their Juvenalia Prime topic and talked about it. Cassie's Creep Dive energy was a bad influence and we ran out of time before we could talk about...

Millennial Saturday morning TV shows! The true golden age of television! Cat Deeley! Ant and Dec! Zoe Ball! Jamie Theakston! Trevor and Simon! Alan and Sarah go through the many ways in which Going Live, LIVE & Kicking, and SMTV Live are in many ways the most important television shows of all time with some timely diversions into British panel shows and the career of Simon Amstell. Also Alan a...

Jeffrey Cranor of, among many other things Welcome To Night Vale and Within The Wires,  joins us to talk about 1981's swords 'n' stop motion epic Clash Of The Titans.  We admire Ray Harryhausen's uncanny creatures, marvel at the fact that it came out the same week as Raiders Of The Lost Ark,  and generally poke and prod at a classic movie that seems unstuck in time. Jeffrey Cranor i...

Simon O'Connor of the Museum Of Literature Ireland joins us to talk about Twin Peaks. Simon and Sarah were both teenage Twin Peaks obsessives and they let it all out in this episode. We talked about the original series, Fire Walk With Me, season three, and just as many things in and around Twin Peaks and David Lynch as we could fit into the time we had.   You can find the Nicholas Jaar mix th...

Karyn Moynihan from the Sweet Valley High podcast Double Love returns to the podcast to talk about the 1993 video store staple Demolition Man . Alan and Karyn have seen it many, many times. Sarah just watched it for the first time. We have a lot to talk about. For instance, Sylvester's Stallone's neck: why is it so big? Why is seeing real things blow up more satisfying than seeing CG things blow u...

Dublin rapper Nealo joins Alan and guest co-host Andrea Cleary to talk about his teenage love of pop punk. We talk about the supremacy of Blink 182, wishing you went to an American high school, the incelly vibe to a LOT of the lyrics, the differences between Dublin scene kids and rural scene kids, Blast, and a whole lot more. Listening note: Alan's dogs were in the room while he was recording so y...

Writer and Podcaster Rosemary MacCabe joins Alan and Andrea to talk about an extremely divisive part of the Star Wars universe that is dear to Rosemary's heart, the Ewoks. We talk about the Ewok spinoff movies Caravan Of Courage and Battle For Endor and about how none of us would be good film critics. It's a nice time. Rosemary is @RosemaryMacCabe everywhere. She hosts the podcasts Not Without My...

Best-selling author Louise O’Neill makes a triumphant return to Juvenalia to talk about the most unsettling children’s movie ever made: Return To Oz! It’s a weird one. Louise O’Neill’s new novel After The Silence is out now and it’s so good, everybody’s talking about it. Alan is  @alan_maguire . Juvenalia is his main thing right now. Sarah is  @griffski . Her many books are in all g...

Pamela from Pillow Queens joins us to talk about the secretly beloved Grease 2. We talk about the weird Turn Everything Up To 11 energy of the film, the charisma of Michelle Pfeiffer, and RE-PRO-DUC-TION (reproduction). It was a blast. You can find Pamela on twitter @duurtvader . Pillow Queens’ debut album In Waiting is out September 25th and it’s going to be amazing Alan is  @alan_maguire .&...

Conner Habib is an author, lecturer, sex workers' rights advocate and the host of Against Everyone with Conner Habib . He joined us to talk about the work of Clive Barker. Sarah and Alan were new to the world of Barker so we mostly stuck to two of his best-known works, Hellraiser  and Candyman . We also touched on lots of other stuff though including Books Of Blood, gore  and discom...

Fair City’s Roxanna Nic Liam returns to Juvenalia to talk about another thing she was obsessed with when she was young and it’s a big one: Pokémon! We mostly stuck to the original 151 with a little bit of Pokémon Go thrown in for spice. We had fun, hope you do too!  Roxanna is  @nicliamo on Twitter. You can see her on Fair City and just generally being sound and funny on twitter and Inst...

Global pop sensation CMAT joins us to talk about The Beatles. CMAT had some STORIES for us about being a pre-teen Beatles fan and now you get to enjoy them too. CMAT is @cmatbaby on Twitter. CMAT is a global pop sensation. You can and should immediately find her stuff everywhere music is. Start with the video for Rodney. Alan is @alan_maguire.  Juvenalia is his main thing right now. Sarah is @grif...

Podcasting LEGEND Jen O’Dwyer returns to Juvenalia to talk about many 90s kids’ introduction to the wide world of European perversion: Eurotrash. We talk about camp, enthusiastic looking vs voyeurism, the return of eccentrics, and of course all the nudity that got us watching Eurotrash in the first place Jen O’Dwyer appears on The Creep Dive, Mother Of Pod, Vulture Club, and is a Rogue founder. Al...

Author Caroline O'Donoghue returns to Juvenalia for the FIFTH time to talk about a very special animated movie, Don Bluth's Anastasia. We talk about the ways it differs from Disney, we rate all of Anastasia's outfits, and Caroline tells us the true story behind Anastasia of Anna Anderson which leads to a discussion of female scammers. We had a great time. Caroline is @czaroline on twitter. Her new...

Andrea Cleary returns to to show to talk about her love for Disney's 1973 animated version of Robin Hood, the sexiest film of all time. Andrea co-hosts the Nialler9 podcast . Her writing can be found in The Sunday Business Post and other places too. Alan is @alan_maguire .  Juvenalia is his main thing right now. Sarah is @griffski . Her many books are in all good bookshops and her many zines...

Jennifer Quigley of I Love This Band joins us to talk about Courtney Love and Hole particularly Live Through This! It was a good chat! Jennifer's podcast I Love This Band is available wherever the podcasts are. Alan is @alan_maguire .  Juvenalia is his main thing right now. Sarah is @griffski . Her many books are in all good bookshops and her many zines are at sarahmariagriff.com This episode...

Podcaster and radio host Cian Sullivan joins us to talk about Eurovision! Eurovision is huge and we are small so we dipped in and out of the bits that interested us, Cian took us through his Eurovision score card, told us what it was like to see Eurovision live, and of course we paid our respects to Riverdance. Cian is @ciansullivan on twitter. You can listen to him on Sissy That Pod and Umbrella....

We made it to 100! We would have liked to do a live show to celebrate but well *gestures in any direction* so instead Alan, Sarah, and Ellen(!) got together on Zoom to talk about some of their favourite things from the years they were born (1984, 1988, and 1992 respectively). So what are those things? Well there's This Is Spinal Tap, The Secret History, Red Dwarf, The Replacements, Who Framed Roge...