Writer and host of Boars, Gore, and Swords Ivan Hernandez joins us to talk about one of the most influential SNES games of all time, Earthbound/ Mother 2. It's truly the Velvet Underground of 16-bit RPGs, you can see traces of it in all the indie games that we enthuse about here all the time. Ivan was a mod on the Earthbound fan forum starmen.net so he was able to go deep on this game. Sarah has played Earthbound multiple times as an adult so was able to go right there with him. Alan has played ...
Aug 05, 2021•1 hr 14 min•Season 1Ep. 132
Writer/Director Conor O'Toole dropped by to talk about a film he watched "a million" times as a child, Fly Away Home. Fly Away Home is a classic 'girl and her father fly light aircraft across international borders to teach orphaned geese how to migrate' story. Jeff Daniels and Anna Paquin are in it. It looks gorgeous and deserves to be part of our nostalgia canon. The talk leads us onto other things like how Conor's relationship to the film now that he's the Jeff Daniels, how we talk to our anim...
Jul 22, 2021•59 min•Season 1Ep. 131
Michelle Hennessy of thejournal.ie joins us to talk about beloved Alan Rickman showcase Robin Hood: Prince Of Thieves starring Alan Rickman and also Kevin Costner. We talked all about RH:POT as a surprising entry into the canon of female gaze movies, the director’s cut vs the original, the accents, and Alan Rickman, Alan Rickman’s energy, and Alan Rickman’s shirts. Michelle is @michellehtweet on twitter. You can read her work on thejournal.ie Alan is @alan_maguire . Juvenalia is his main thing r...
Jul 08, 2021•53 min•Season 1Ep. 130
RTÉ Raidió na Gaeltachta newsreader Póilín Nic Géidigh joins us to talk about the queen of late 00s Disney Channel Originals, Hannah Montana. We learn what it was like to be a Hannah Montana fan but we also talk about how TikTok is dead, about the power of teenage girls’ obsessions, about Miley Cyrus’s post-Hannah career, about how good Emily Osment was as Hannah’s best friend Lily, and lots more. Have fun! Póilín is @poilination on all the platforms. You can follow her on TikTok or tune in to R...
Jun 24, 2021•1 hr 12 min•Season 1Ep. 129
Carly Monardo of Rude Tales Of Magic joins us for the only Final Fantasy VII podcast you’ll ever need. We talked about the game obviously but also about fandoms, and keeping your obsessions to yourself, and fanart, and really it went everywhere. Just listen to it and have fun. Carly Monardo is @whirringblender everywhere. She plays Albee on Rude Tales Of Magic which you absolutely need to listen to. She is also character designer for Birdgirl on Adult Swim. Alan is @alan_maguire . Juvenalia is h...
Jun 10, 2021•1 hr 38 min•Season 1Ep. 128
Alex Lolies is a video producer for board game site Dicebreaker and a Twitch streamer. She joined us to, naturally, talk all about board games and her journey from childhood games of Monopoly to board game cafe guru to Dicebreaker. We talked about playing to win, modern single player board games, collaborative play, and finished up with some solid recommendations for anybody who wants to step up from Christmas games of Trivial Pursuit to more complex games. Alex is BoardgameYogi on Twitter and T...
May 27, 2021•54 min•Season 1Ep. 127
Singer-songwriter Carsie Blanton joins us for a deep chat about Sheryl Crow’s 1993 album Tuesday Night Music Club . We talked about why 90s music sounds the way it does, our respective journeys from pop to rebellion and back again, being a lyrics person, the Lilith Fair tour, and the general easy-going polish of Sheryl Crow. Carsie is @carsieblanton on Twitter. Her new album Love & Rage is out now. Alan is @alan_maguire . Juvenalia is his main thing right now. Sarah is @griffski . Her many b...
May 13, 2021•49 min•Season 1Ep. 126
YA author Maggie Tokuda-Hall joins us to talk about everybody's favourite mid-90s greek mythology-inspired adventure series, Xena: Warrior Princess . Maggie is a Xena super-fan with loads of great insights so it was an extremely fun and enlightening hour. We talked about how 20+ episode seasons allow shows the space to get weird, Xena and the male gaze, how we're over the need for consistent canon in our tv shows, and loads more. Maggie is @emteehall on Twitter. You can find out more info about ...
Apr 28, 2021•1 hr 3 min•Season 1Ep. 125
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 YouLike Me, is out now everywhere songs can be bought and listened to. You can find Laura on Instagra...
Apr 15, 2021•42 min•Season 1Ep. 124
(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 dark, dark, super dark this film, how it’s still funny though, about the disastrous 2018 TV reboot,...
Mar 31, 2021•1 hr 11 min•Season 1Ep. 123
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 the idea of Hobo and Nope being called Turn Of The Century Fashion made you feel a little bit sick th...
Mar 18, 2021•1 hr 17 min•Season 1Ep. 122
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 Half And Half Alan is @alan_maguire . Juvenalia is his main thing right now. Sarah is @griffski . Her ...
Mar 04, 2021•1 hr 2 min•Season 1Ep. 121
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 over at @TheCreepDive on Instagram and @DiveCreep on Twitter. If you’re not listening to The Creep Dive then ...
Feb 19, 2021•1 hr 5 min•Season 1Ep. 120
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 Fionnuala is @FionnualaJay everywhere, you should follow her, she's excellent. Fionnuala's podcast Bandwago...
Feb 04, 2021•55 min•Season 1Ep. 119
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 Fierstein, and wrap it up with a chat about Dublin youth theatre, writing, and our school musicals. It's a n...
Jan 21, 2021•1 hr 1 min•Season 1Ep. 118
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 Sarah's thing so we're going to do that on Patreon at a later date. Right here, right now though yo...
Jan 08, 2021•54 min•Season 1Ep. 117
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 and Sarah talk about their histories working in and appearing on kids TV. We couldn't think of a Chri...
Dec 24, 2020•48 min•Season 1Ep. 116
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 is @happierman . He co-writes the podcasts Welcome to Night Vale and Within the Wires and is the co-founder of the inde...
Dec 10, 2020•1 hr 6 min•Season 1Ep. 115
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 that Alan mentioned which starts with Angelo Badalamenti talking about writing Laura's Theme here . Simon is ...
Nov 26, 2020•1 hr 19 min•Season 1Ep. 115
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 up? Does Denis Leary know he's in a movie? and lots more. Karyn is @redlemonader . You can, and shoul...
Nov 12, 2020•50 min•Season 1Ep. 113
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 you can occasionally hear a soft bark or snore, sorry about that. Also this episode was recorded over...
Oct 29, 2020•54 min•Season 1Ep. 112
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 Sister and How To Be Sound and she also has a hugely popular Patreon Alan is @alan_maguire . Juvenal...
Oct 14, 2020•43 min•Season 1Ep. 111
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 good bookshops and her many zines are at sarahmariagriff.com This episode was produced by Cassie Delaney. Thank you Ca...
Oct 02, 2020•1 hr•Season 1Ep. 110
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 . Juvenalia is his main thing right now. Sarah is @griffski . Her many books are in all good bookshops and h...
Sep 18, 2020•1 hr 21 min•Season 1Ep. 109
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 discomfort, and the larger Hellraiser universe. It was a really interesting conversation and hopefully you'll all go check ...
Sep 03, 2020•1 hr 4 min•Season 1Ep. 108
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 Instagram. Alan is @alan_maguire . Juvenalia is his main thing right now. Sarah is @griffski . Her many books are in...
Aug 20, 2020•1 hr•Season 1Ep. 107
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 @griffski. Her many books are in all good bookshops and her many zines are at sarahmariagriff.com This epi...
Aug 06, 2020•1 hr 16 min•Season 1Ep. 106
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. Alan is @alan_maguire . Juvenalia is his main thing right now. Sarah is @griffski . Her many books are...
Jul 22, 2020•53 min•Season 1Ep. 105
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 novel Scenes Of A Graphic Nature is available on eBook and audiobook now and in hardback in August....
Jul 09, 2020•1 hr 14 min•Season 1Ep. 104
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 are at sarahmariagriff.com This episode was produced by Cassie Delaney. Thank you Cassie. Thank you to Dee...
Jun 24, 2020•1 hr 5 min•Season 1Ep. 103
