The Juvenalia Book Club is back! We’re talking about book 2 of Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials series, The Subtle Knife . We talk about our love for new characters Will and Mary, the nature of dark matter in the His Dark Materials universe, whose dark material is it anyway?, trusting that a book will give you the answers you’re looking for if you just keep reading. Also, Andrea probes Alan’s understanding of what he’s reading and Alan tries his best to answer her. Alan is @alan_maguire . Juv...
Jun 26, 2025•55 min•Season 1Ep. 213
Author and Journalist Vicki Notaro joins us to talk about the queen of melodramas, the wind beneath our wings, Garry Marshall’s Beaches (1988). There’s a lot to get through, the performances, shitty New York Apartments, Nouveau Riche New York Apartments, Celeb/Normie friendships: can they ever work? Boradway auditions, and lots more. It’s a good time. Vicki Notaro is @VickiNotaro . Her new novel Long Story is out right now. Alan is @alan_maguire . He does a bit of standup but Juvenalia is his ...
Jun 05, 2025•1 hr 10 min•Season 1Ep. 212
Donegal folk artist Ramper is with us to talk about the impact that Rory Gallagher’s live album Irish Tour ‘74 had on him as a young fella. We also talk about how our taste in guitar gods has changed as we’ve gotten older and just about the whole idea of guitar gods in general. Ramper’s debut album Loner is out now. He’s on tour this month. You can catch him on 25th May in Belfast, followed by Galway (28th May), Dublin (29th May) and Donegal (31 May). Alan is @alan_maguire . Juvenalia is his mai...
May 22, 2025•41 min•Season 1Ep. 211
Welcome to the first meeting of the Juvenalia Book Club. We’re going to be taking turns introducing each other to book series that we love. For our first run Andrea will be introducing Alan to the His Dark Materials books by Philip Pullman. We’re going to be talking about Pullman’s amazing worldbuilding, taking children’s problems seriously, the biggest boy Iorek Byrnison, and lots more. Join us and tell us what you love (or don’t love) about these books Alan is @alan_maguire . Juvenalia is his ...
May 07, 2025•1 hr 7 min•Season 1Ep. 210
James Hudson is the festival director of the Trans Image Trans Experience (TITE) Festival which runs in the Lighthouse from April 25th-27th. He joined Alan and Andrea to talk about the fourth film in the Aien Quadrilogy, 1997’s Alien Resurrection. We talked about picking up gender clues from Ripley 8 and Coll, Tumblr RP, the Joss Whedon of it all, Vera Drew, the tragedy of the Newborn, MTV’s Teen Wolf, interesting faces and so much more. James is the festival director of @TiTeFestival . You can ...
Apr 23, 2025•1 hr 15 min•Season 1Ep. 209
the bus goes fast Alan is @alan_maguire . Juvenalia is his main thing right now but he does a bit of standup sometimes too. Andrea @AndreaCleary_ . Her other podcasts are My Favourite Album With Andrea Cleary and The Nialler9 Podcast. Her newsletter is at https://andrea-cleary.ghost.io/ Thank you to Dee McDonnell for our artwork. We have a Patreon! You can get bonus episodes including our patreon-only show Started/Finished where we talk about the pop culture we started and finished recent...
Apr 14, 2025•1 hr 6 min•Season 1Ep. 208
Singer-songwriter Maria Kelly is back to talk to us about Kate Nash’s 2007 debut album Made Of Bricks . We talk about Kate Nash’s songwriting, production choices, her appeal to teenage girls, Foundations, Foundations, Foundations. Also Alan accidentally repeats a story he told the last time Maria was on the show. Maria is @mariakellymusic . Her fantastic new album Waiting Room is out now. Alan is @alan_maguire . Juvenalia is his main thing right now but he does a bit of standup sometimes too. An...
Mar 27, 2025•50 min•Season 1Ep. 207
Hello, here's the first ten minutes of Alan and Andrea's reaction to the season 2 finale of Severance. The full 95 minute episode is available for our Slammer-level patrons over on Patreon. Enjoy!
Mar 22, 2025•10 min
HACK THE PLANET! $p@gB011(Julie Hough of HAVVK and PostLast) is back and she’s brought us something special, 1995’s Hackers. She joins Steve Buffers (Alan) and Em@il (Andrea) to talk about the music, the fashion, the rollerblades, that once scene where Fisher Stevens skitches on a limo for no reason, and lots lots more. Julie is @julie _ hawk . You can hear her in HAVVK and PostLast. Alan is @alan_maguire . Juvenalia is his main thing right now but he does a bit of standup sometimes too. Andrea ...
Mar 14, 2025•1 hr 11 min•Season 1Ep. 206
We’re back baby! Back with a bang because Irish internet legend Kelly Earley is here to talk about how important Tegan And Sara were to her as a young lesbian. We talk about Tumblr, treatong albums like haircuts, JoJo Siwa, Yearncore, and finding community on the internet. We’re happy to be back, we’re happy you’re here. Kelly is @ earley . Her Substack is Kelly’s Rubbish . Alan is @alan_maguire . Juvenalia is his main thing right now but he does a bit of standup sometimes too. Andrea @AndreaCle...
Feb 20, 2025•1 hr 3 min•Season 1Ep. 205
Hey! We’re back! Alan has never seen Miracle On 34th Street , Andrea has never seen Gremlins … until now. We’re talking about Gizmo, we’re talking about Phoebe Cates’s inappropriate Christmas stories, we’re tsalking about Mara Wilson and Richard Attenborough. All that good stuff. Thanks for sticking around, see you in 2025! Alan is @alan_maguire . Juvenalia is his main thing right now but he does a bit of standup sometimes too. Andrea @AndreaCleary_ . Her other podcasts are My Favourite Album Wi...
Dec 18, 2024•1 hr 15 min
On Halloween Night 1992, the BBC aired Ghostwatch, which purported to be a live investigation into a house and family that had been plagued by poltergeist activity. The studio segments were hosted by Michael Parkinson, while children’s presenter Sarah Greene explored the house and interviewed the family at the center of the haunting. Things started to go very wrong and the show ended in disaster. Due to a quirk of scheduling, a large part of the audience didn’t realise that it was all fake. Ghos...
Oct 19, 2024•1 hr 12 min•Season 1Ep. 204
Hey there, Alan and Andrea have some recommendations for you now that autumn has properly hit. They’ve got an album and three TV shows. We say recommendations but you’ve definitely heard of at least two of these already. The things are: Hayley Heynderickx - I Need To Start A Garden (with some bonus chat about Cat Cylde) Frasier (told you you’d heard of some of them already) Gilmore Girls (ditto, also the cheek of Alan to go to great lengths to explain how he wanted to avoid obvious choices for a...
Oct 03, 2024•56 min•Season 1Ep. 203
Happy Bisexuality Awareness Week! To celebrate, award winning food TikTok/Instagram person Sian Conway joined us to talk about Brainiac: Science Abuse. If you know you know. We talked all about our school experiences of science, Richard “The Hamster“ Hammond, and of course, Jon Tickle walking across a swimming pool full of custard. We’d also forgotten quite how sexist the show was so we pitch some ideas to rebalance the scales if the show ever comes back. Sian is @sianconway . She won the Irish ...
Sep 19, 2024•56 min•Season 1Ep. 202
Writer Rachel Connolly joins us to talk about Disney’s The Fox And The Hound (1981). We’re asking all the big questions this episode, questions like: why does Disney keep making sexy foxes? How much, if any, moral instruction do children take from the media they consume? Did the worm in Snow White have a face? And many more. Rachel is @RachelConnoll14 . Her debut novel Lazy City is out now. Her Substack is rachelconnolly.substack.com . Both are excellent. Alan is @alan_maguire . Juvenalia is his...
Sep 05, 2024•56 min•Season 1Ep. 201
Musician and actress Kate Nash joins us for our 200th episode as we take another run at Buffy The Vampire Slayer . Kate is a Buffy mega-fan so we had plenty to talk about. Things like Spike, Angel, femininity, The Body , a defence of Xander, Band Candy , and Kate’s live performance of the entirety of Once More With Feeling in 2012. Kate is @KateNash . Her latest album 9 Sad Symphonies is out now. It’s excellent, you’ll love it. Alan is @alan_maguire . Juvenalia is his main thing right now but he...
Aug 22, 2024•1 hr 6 min•Season 1Ep. 200
Singer-songwriter Callum Orr joins us to talk about Paul Verhoeven’s super-camp, super-violent satire of fascist propaganda Starship Troopers (1997). We talk about the difference between watching it for the first time as an adult and as a younger person, the effectiveness of the satire, we pick apart the imagery, we get deep on this thing. Callum is @callvm.orr . His debut album The Trials Of Knowing is out now. Alan is @alan_maguire . Juvenalia is his main thing right now but he does a bit of s...
Aug 08, 2024•1 hr 5 min•Season 1Ep. 199
Author and podcaster Janina Matthewson joins us as we try to cover as much of C.S. Lewis's Narnia books as is physically possible in 53 minutes. We talk about the religious stuff, the mistreatment of Susan in The Last Battle, about how maybe The Magician’s Nephew is the best one?, about why consistent lore and geography is overrated, and lots more. Janina is @J9andlf . She does the podcasts Within The Wires and History Is Sexy and also writes books. Her latest one is The Horses. Alan is @alan_m...
Jul 25, 2024•53 min•Season 1Ep. 198
Award-winning poet Jessica Traynor joins us to talk about 90’s alt-rock legends Babes In Toyland with some detours into their contemporaries Hole and Bikini Kill. We talk about female rage, taping late night MTV so you could watch in the next day, seeing your teenage heroes live, and lots lots more. Jessica Traynor is @JessicaTraynor6 . You can find her most recent collection Pit LullabiesI at jessicatraynor.com Alan is @alan_maguire . He does a bit of standup but Juvenalia is his main thing r...
Jul 11, 2024•1 hr 1 min•Season 1Ep. 197
This is a big one. We had a little gap in our schedule so Alan & Andrea decided to get all of their feelings about Elliott Smith down in podcast form. We talk about that voice, those melodies, that guitar playing, the time he and Louis theroux interviewed each other for Select Magazine, his creative partnership with Jon Brion and so much more. Sidenote: consider this a kind of reverse trigger warning: we don’t talk about any details of Elliott Smith’s death or engage in any speculation aroun...
Jun 28, 2024•1 hr 26 min•Season 1Ep. 196
Claire Anne is the studio head of Dúlamán Studios and creator of upcoming YA “sci-fi cosplaying as a fantaasy murder-mystery” animated series Oribis. She joined us for a super-sized episode about a super-sized game series, Kingdom Hearts . We tried to unravel the looping complex story, the integration of Disney and Final Fantasy characters, the music, and loads more. Claire Anne is currently preparing to launch the Kickstarter for Oribis. You can follow her progress here Alan is @alan_maguire ...
Jun 14, 2024•1 hr 19 min•Season 1Ep. 195
Submitted for the approval of The Midnight Society, Serra Petale and Agustina Ruiz from Los Bitchos join Alan and Sarah for a big ol chat about Nickelodeon’s long-running spooky anthology series Are You Afraid Of The Dark? We talk about our favourite episodes, which ones genuinely traumatised us for life, the importance of a good scare, watching true crime with your mother, Melissa Joan Hart, and lots more. Serra and Agustina are in Los Bitchos . Their new single La Bomba is out now and they’re ...
May 30, 2024•46 min•Season 1Ep. 194
Electro-pop twins ROOUE aka Róisín and Lulu join Alan and Andrea as we enthuse wildy about Britney Jean Spears. We talk about the VMAs, that voice, her dancing, the whole virginity thing, and of course her vast discography of classic pop. ROOUE are @ROOUEMusic . Their debut EP Juxtaposition is out May 24th. 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 With Andrea Cl...
May 16, 2024•1 hr 5 min•Season 1Ep. 193
Áine O’Connell of the new books podcast I Think You Should Read joins us as we get super earnest about Baz Luhrmann’s 2001 spectacular spectacular Moulin Rouge . We just kind of geek out about it really Sarah and Áine both have a deep and lengthy relationship with film so there was a lot to talk about. It’s a good one. Áine is @ainereads . She co-hosts I Think You Should Read , a podcast about books you should read. Alan is @alan_maguire . He does a bit of standup but Juvenalia is his main thi...
May 02, 2024•59 min•Season 1Ep. 192
WELCOME 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 With...
Apr 18, 2024•1 hr 8 min•Season 1Ep. 191
Comedian 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 Thos...
Mar 21, 2024•1 hr 28 min•Season 1Ep. 190
Welcome 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 out ...
Mar 06, 2024•1 hr 11 min•Season 1Ep. 189
Comedian 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+18...
Feb 15, 2024•1 hr 13 min•Season 1Ep. 188
Comedian 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 our f...
Feb 01, 2024•57 min•Season 1Ep. 187
Welcome 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 talking...
Jan 18, 2024•1 hr 2 min•Season 1Ep. 186
