Juvenalia

Jenna Stoeber, video producer at Polygon and co-host of Fandalites, joined Alan and guest co-host Caroline O'Donoghue to talk about the classic anime series Sailor Moon. Now, Sailor Moon had a very limited run on our side of the Atlantic so we're very grateful to Jenna for being patient with us and answering our questions and guiding us through the beautiful, complicated world of the Pretty Guardi...

Emilie Pine, author of the best-selling essay collection Notes To Self, joined Alan and Sarah in the All Curious Minds tent at the All Together Now festival in Co. Waterford to talk about a book that was very important to her when she was young, Louisa May Alcott's Little Women.  We talked about boxes of books, rebel girls, gothic novels, not having a tv, and all about Jo.  Tha...

Claire Beck, DJ and host of the podcasts Fear/Fun and Tug Life, takes Alan and Sarah to school about the history of hip hop and Rapper's Delight's place in it. Claire is an amazing DJ and listening to her talk about the art of DJing was one of the most interesting experiences we've had doing Juvenalia.  Claire is @clairebeck1052  on Twitter. Fear/Fun is on the He...

Daily Edge writer Fionnuala Jones joins Alan and special guest co-host Caroline O'Donoghue to talk about Stardoll, a fashion-based social network for teenz from 2006. We talked about Fionnuala spending hundreds of euro for Superstar status, the Olsen twins, making friends online, Second Life, Love Island, and fashion, fashion, FASHION.  Fionnuala Jones is @FionnualaJay  on Twitter Alan i...

Comedian Ruth Hunter joins Alan and Ellen to talk about Gilmore Girls. We talk about all aspects of all the seasons so there are tons of spoilers. You have been warned. Topics covered include: good kissing gifs, the evolution of Jess, #LaneDeservedBetter, rich people are bad, and the relative sexlessness of Gilmore Girls.  Ruth Hunter is @ruthokhunter on Twitter. Her show Science Id...

Music writer and co-host of The Nialler9 Podcast Andrea Cleary joins Alan and Ellen to talk about the best little pig in the world, Babe. We talked about vegetarianism, feeling all the feelings, teaching moral lessons with animals, is Babe a sports film?, the many ways in which James Cromwell is wonderful, Alistair MacLeod short stories, Ulysses, Christine Cavanaugh, and just g...

Author and awards-magnet Louise O'Neill joined Alan and Sarah to talk about Enid Blyton's classic series about a fantastical tree that's not nearby, The Magic Faraway Tree. We talked about the Famous Five vs Secret Seven, the comforting repetition of Enid Blyton, updating books for modern audiences, and, seeing as we had two of Ireland's best YA authors in the studio, a lot of talk about writ...

Spoken word artist Sahar Ali joins Alan and Ellen to talk about The Fresh Prince Of Bel Air. We focused on three episodes in particular: the "why don't he want me, man" episode, the one where Carlton overdoses on speed, and the one where Carlton and Will get arrested in a fancy car. We talked about representation on kids TV, Fresh Prince's willingness to leave things on a sad note, learn...

Scott Benson, co-creator and animator of the award-winning Night In The Woods and co-founder of Late Night Work Club, joined Alan and Ellen to talk about the Indiana Jones series and many related topics including Dinosaurs, wolf re-introduction, whether Scott would win a fight with a coyote, good band names, Indiana Jones: Anti-communist?, SnakeCon, and all that good Juvenalia stuff...

Welcome to our big 50th episode party! We took over the Vintage Room in The Workman's Club and filled it with sound people. We did a little quiz and gave away some extremely desirable prizes. Then we talked to Oscar-winning graphic designer Annie Atkins whose work you've seen in The Grand Budapest Hotel, Isle Of Dogs, Bridge Of Spies, The Tudors, and loads more. Annie talked to us about the classi...

Linda Kavanagh of Together For Yes joins Alan and guest co-host Karyn Moynihan of Double Love to talk about everybody's favourite lil 80s alien, E.T. the Extra Terrestrial. We talk about dissecting frogs, very good child actors, is E.T. a vegetarian, Mac and Me, Miss Vanjie, Paul Rudd, with a little diversion into the Fast and Furious films. We had fun, you'll have fun.  Follow us a...

Kate McEvoy, video producer, twitter citizen, and former voice of Phantom FM, joins Alan and Sarah to talk about Roald Dahl's Matilda, memory, Danny DeVito's film adaptation, Roald Dahl's real life, and digressions into lots of other Roald Dahl books.   Note: We had a couple of recording snafus in the second half of the episode which we had to edit out so there are a couple of abrup...

Esther O'Moore Donohoe, host of The 80% and warrior of the AA Roadwatch, joins Alan and Sarah to talk about Sex And The City. We talk about annoying main characters, the standard jobs that women have in TV shows, Girls, and the ~journey~ that the Sex And The City characters went on over six good seasons, one good movie, and one other movie.  You can follow Esther on twitte...

Hey! The first episode of Juvenalia went out two years ago today so we wanted to mark the occasion with a little minisode just to say thank you and to tell you about our upcoming LIVE show. The live show may or may not be called Twovenalia. Ok have a nice day. Juvenalia original artwork by Dee McDonnell This episode was produced by Alan

Writer, podcaster, and the creator of everybody's favourite Tinyletter, Anne T. Donahue joins Alan and Ellen to talk about Star Wars and Star Wars-related things. Some of those things included: Anne's award-winning Star Wars essay, Hayden Christensen catfishers, fixing General Hux, Donald Glover, and a too-brief diversion into true crime. We had fun. We hope you like it.  You c...

Stand-up comedian and Try Channel contributor Lolsy Byrne joins Alan and Ellen to talk about Lois And Clark: The New Adventures Of Superman. We talk about Dean Cain, Teri Hatcher, having the channels, getting incomplete sex education from television, being a three-year old, and Lolsy breaks out some of her childhood diaries to give us a first hand account of her Superman love.  You can f...

Karyn Moynihan of Double Love joins Alan and Ellen to talk about the truly, truly, truly outrageous Jem And The Holograms. We talk music, outfits, makeup, The Misfits, gender, diversity, all of that good Juvenalia stuff. Enjoy  Ellen writes for Silicon Republic. Alan mostly does Juvenalia but he does standup sometimes too.  Follow us all on Twitter! Karyn Moynihan ( @redlemonader ) Ellen...

Actor and Comedian Tara Flynn joins Alan and special guest co-host Stacy Grouden to talk about ABBA! We talk about happy songs, sad songs, trying to sing along to ABBA, Tara's audition for Mamma Mia, Pierce Brosnan in Mamma Mia, and all sorts of things.  This episode is sponsored by Just Eat  Stacy Grouden is the film editor of State.ie and will be appearing soon on the new Scannáin podc...

We had a scheduling mix-up so Alan and Ellen sat down and had a chat about the thing that they’d pick if they were a Juvenalia guest, The Simpsons. This is not a rigorous history of The Simpsons, we jump around a lot and probably get things wrong but this is OUR Simpsons so let us have it.  Happy New Year. We have zero solid plans for what’s happening with Juvenalia this year but we’re sure i...

Hello and welcome to the Juvenalia Christmas Smalltacular 2017! We decided to take it back to basics this year. Just Alan, Ellen, and Sarah talking about some of their favourite Christmas memories and how their 2017 went. This somehow led to a solid ten minutes of chatting about how much we love the McElroys and The Adventure Zone but the rest is pretty Christmassy with talk of Mega Drives, N64s,...

Stephen Colfer of Dreamgun and the Dreamgun Film Reads podcast joins Alan and Ellen to talk about 2000’s The Legend Of Zelda: Majora’s Mask. We talk about the weird loneliness of Majora’s Mask, loft living, ludonarrative dissonance, watching your friends play computer games, official console magazines, Pokemon tournaments, and loads of other stuff.  Alan has another podcast on the HeadStuff P...

Author Dave Rudden joins Alan and Sarah so that they can feel all the emotions about Terry Pratchett. This is a long one so make a pot of tea or plan a long drive somewhere. We focused mostly on the Discworld novels particularly Vimes and the witches. There’s lots of enthusing and lots of quoting from memory. Hopefully it’ll make you pick up a Discworld book or any Terry Pratchett book really. The...

Comedian and podcaster Erin McGathy of This Feels Terrible, HarmonQuest and many other things joins Alan & Ellen to talk about Jim Henson’s 1986 cult classic Labyrinth. Erin has very deep feelings about Labyrinth and was kind enough to share loads of them with us particularly the ones about David Bowie. Ellen and Erin also formed a sacred and lasting bond over their water bottles. This Feels T...

Rebecca Keane is a standup comedian, writer, and excellent Twitter person. She joined us to talk about the colossus of 90s Saturday evening entertainment, Stars In Their Eyes. We covered all the important topics like the niceness of Matthew Kelly and the bleakness of the intro videos. We brainstormed who we’d be if we ever got the chance to be on it and we managed to shoehorn in an impressive numb...

Well we did it. We did a live show at the Dublin Podcast Festival. We did a quiz that went on slightly longer than planned and then we talked to singer and actor Maria Doyle Kennedy of The Commitments, Orphan Black, The Tudors, Dexter, Father Ted, and loads more about The Wizard Of Oz with some detours along the way to talk about mermaids, ghosts, Billie Holiday, and Maria’s directorial debut A Di...