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, learning morals from Will Smith, and the legacy of rich, black families on TV. Sahar is @saharmali on Twitter. Alan...
Jun 06, 2018•53 min•Season 1Ep. 52
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. Night In The Woods is one of Alan's favourite games ever so please note how relatively chill he managed to stay d...
May 24, 2018•55 min•Season 1Ep. 51
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 classic and only mildly disturbing family comedy BIG. It was a really interesting conversation and also it...
May 10, 2018•1 hr 6 min•Season 1Ep. 50
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 all on Twitter: Linda Kavanagh ( @bubblenoma ) Alan Maguire ( @alan_maguire ) Karyn Moynihan ( @redlemonader ) You ca...
Apr 26, 2018•45 min•Season 1Ep. 49
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 abrupt changes of topic but hopefully it's not too noticeable. You can follow Kate on Twitter @ImKateMc and you should. Sa...
Apr 12, 2018•1 hr 5 min•Season 1Ep. 48
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 twitter @estheromd . Esther's podcast The 80% is available in all the places where you get podcasts. Sarah's twitter is @griffski an...
Mar 29, 2018•52 min•Season 1Ep. 47
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
Mar 24, 2018•3 min
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 can follow Anne on twitter @annetdonahue . Anne's book and podcast are both called Nobody Cares. The podcast is excellent,...
Mar 15, 2018•53 min•Season 1Ep. 46
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 follow Lolsy on twitter @lolsybyrne and buy her excellent live album End Of Daze on Bandcamp. Ellen's twitter is...
Mar 01, 2018•1 hr•Season 1Ep. 45
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 Tannam ( @incogellen ) Alan Maguire ( @alanmaguire ) Juvenalia ( @JuvenaliaPod ) Like Juvenalia on Facebook! We...
Feb 15, 2018•56 min•Season 1Ep. 44
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 podcast. Alan mostly does Juvenalia but he does standup sometimes too. Relevant Twitter accounts for this episode: T...
Jan 18, 2018•46 min•Season 1Ep. 42
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 it’ll be very exciting and good. This episode is sponsored by Just Eat Ellen writes for Silicon Republic so...
Jan 04, 2018•58 min•Season 1Ep. 41
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, selection boxes, carols, Carol, and lots of other stuff. The singer who did the version of Have Your...
Dec 21, 2017•1 hr 33 min
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 Podcast Network running until Christmas. It’s called Roast Chestnuts. He reviews a made for TV Christmas fi...
Dec 07, 2017•1 hr 14 min•Season 1Ep. 40
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. They’re pretty much all good. Enjoy. Dave’s books Knights Of the Borrowed Dark and The Forever Court ar...
Nov 23, 2017•2 hr 16 min•Season 1Ep. 39
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 Terrible is on all the podcast apps and is Very Good. Relevant Twitter accounts for this episode: Eri...
Nov 09, 2017•1 hr 12 min•Season 1Ep. 38
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 number of Drag Race references. Hope you like it! Relevant Twitter accounts for this episode: Rebecca Ke...
Oct 25, 2017•1 hr 2 min•Season 1Ep. 37
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 Different Kind Of Day, before we finished with a song from Maria and her husband Kieran (who is a love...
Oct 11, 2017•51 min•Season 1Ep. 36
Moone Boy and Nowhere Fast‘s Clare Monnelly joins us to talk about Animaniacs. We love Animaniacs a whole lot so it was an extreme pleasure to geek out about it for fifty minutes with our new best friend Clare. We talked about getting meta jokes as a child, the hidden filthy jokes, Pinky And The Brain, Good Idea Bad Idea, Chicken Boo, Slappy Squirrel, Hello Nurse, and all the gang. We also talked about just how impressive Rob Paulsen’s rendition of Yakko’s World is, being scared of Ren & Sti...
Sep 28, 2017•59 min•Season 1Ep. 35
Hello there. Our first live show at the Dublin Podcast Festival is less than a week away and we just want to make sure that you know about it. If you want to know why it took us eight minutes to tell you that our guest is Maria Doyle Kennedy, she’ll be talking about The Wizard Of Oz, and it’s in the Workman’s Club* on September 27th on a double-bill with The Alison Spittle Show then you’ll just have to listen. Tickets are on sale now. Hopefully we’ll see you there. We’ll have badges. You can pro...
Sep 21, 2017•10 min
Octocon chairperson Jan Ní Shúilleabháin joined us to talk about her love of Frank Herbert’s Dune in all its forms especially the 1984 David Lynch movie. She basically gave us a crash course in sci-fi appreciation and her enthusiasm was infectious. Jan also told us a bit about the history of Irish cons and about her role in the upcoming Octocon which takes place on the 6th, 7th, and 8th of October in the Camden Court Hotel, Dublin 2. Hey, why not subscribe to Juvenalia and leave a review or even...
Sep 14, 2017•1 hr 2 min•Season 1Ep. 34
Illustrator Fatti Burke of Irelandopedia, Historopedia, and soon Foclóiropedia joined us to talk about 1968’s Oliver! and all things Oliveresque. We like to wander off topic here at Juvenalia and we really wandered far and wide on this one. We can practically guarantee that this is the only Oliver! podcast that’s also about Alan’s old music teacher, good supermarkets, Babycham, and watching people eat crows. We hope you enjoy it as much as we did. Bye x Hey, why not subscribe to Juvenalia and le...
Aug 31, 2017•1 hr 11 min•Season 1Ep. 33
It’s time for another chapter of RL Stine’s Beach Party. When we last saw Karen and Anne-Marie they were being menaced by Vince and his gang of tough boys. But who’s this? I’ll tell you who’s this. It’s Gerry and Marty, two OTHER boys who have Karen and Anne-Marie’s best interests at heart. This chapter also features an immersive trip to a teen hangout, intrigue, lies, and a tight, form-fitting poncho. We’ll be back with a real episode next week. Bye! Hey, why not subscribe to Juvenalia and leav...
Aug 24, 2017•21 min
Animator Gareth Lyons joins Alan and Ellen to talk about as many of the incarnations of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles as they can in an hour. We talk comics, the 1987 cartoon, the 1990 movie, the 2003 series, the 2014 movie, the 2012 series, the action figures, everything basically. Did you know that a lot of the 1987 series was animated in Dublin? Gareth did. Gareth knows a lot about those Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. He was happy to share it with us. Gareth animated and directed the upcomi...
Aug 17, 2017•1 hr 18 min•Season 1Ep. 32
(CW: There’s a bit near the end of the chapter where some boys get a bit sexually menacing; nothing graphic or physical but we’d prefer if you knew in advance if that’s something you need to know) It’s been over a year but Ellen and Alan finally remembered to bring their copies of RL Stine’s Beach Party to a Juvenalia recording so here’s a semi-dramatic reading of chapter two. Chapter three will follow in two weeks and sure we’ll see after that. Don’t forget about Juvenalia LIVE in the Tivoli Th...
Aug 10, 2017•12 min
Actor, Comedian, and Writer Peter McGann joins Alan and Ellen to talk about the first Pierce Brosnan Bond movie, 1995’s GoldenEye. You might know Peter better as his unsettling alter-ego Liam Nugent or from the Republic of Telly. Today, however, he’s here as our pal who knows a lot about James Bond. Ellen watched GoldenEye for the first time for this podcast. Alan watched it for the second time. Everybody had a lot of opinions about it. We had a very nice time and we hope you will too. You can s...
Aug 03, 2017•1 hr 8 min•Season 1Ep. 31
Hannah Mamalis is an actress, writer, and comedian. You probably know her from loads of stuff like various Dreamgun sketches, live shows, and podcasts or maybe from her Comedy Brunch which has appeared at Smock Alley and the Body & Soul Festival. You’ll definitely know her soon from her role in the upcoming film The Drummer and The Keeper, her appearances at the Vodafone Comedy Festival, and her one-woman show The Egg Is A Lonely Hunter which is running at the Dublin Fringe Festival from Sep...
Jul 27, 2017•51 min•Season 1Ep. 30
Deirdre Sullivan is the award-winning author of Needlework, the Primrose Leary trilogy, and the upcoming book of reimagined fairytales, Tangleweed & Brine, which will be released this September. Deirdre joined Alan and Sarah to talk about a trio of versions of The Little Mermaid, Hans Christian Andersen’s original, the Ladybird version, and of course the 1989 Disney version. The Little Mermaid has been a big, big influence on Deirdre and she has lots of really very interesting things to say ...
Jul 01, 2017•51 min•Season 1Ep. 29
Happy Pride Everyone! We got the whole Juvenalia gang into the studio along with spoken word artist Vickey Curtis and The George and 2FM’s Conor Behan to celebrate. Vickey and Conor chose Juvenalia topics that were important to them as young LGBTQI+ people, The Golden Girls and Madonna’s The Immaculate Collection respectively. A grand old time was had by all. Follow Juvenalia on Twitter Juvenalia original artwork by Dee McDonnell This episode was produced by Brian
Jun 22, 2017•1 hr 29 min
Caroline O’Donoghue (@czaroline) is a contributing editor with The Pool and an author whose first book, Promising Young Women, will be released by Virago in early 2018. She joined Alan and Sarah to talk about 90’s sitcoms with a particular focus on Frasier. We talked a lot about David Hyde Pierce, the wonders of Daphne Moon and Lilith, metrosexuality, and the art of farce. We also jumped off into talks about Just Shoot Me, Cybil, and the effect that Friends had on a generation of Irish people. T...
Jun 08, 2017•1 hr 18 min•Season 1Ep. 28
