It’s the pre-spooky season and we’ve picked some games, music, tv, and food that pairs perfectly with the interesting leaf season. This is a little bit of a different one for us but we hope you like it! Alan is @alan_maguire . Juvenalia is his main thing right now. Sarah is @griffski . Her books are in all good bookshops.Thank you to Dee McDonnell for our artwork. We have a Patreon! You can get bonus episodes including our fortnightly show Started/Finished where we talk about the pop culture we ...
Sep 24, 2022•47 min•Season 1Ep. 159
Standup comedian Felix O’Connor joins us to talk about the manga/anime/card game behemoth Yu-Gi-Oh! We had a great time diving into what makes Yu-Gi-Oh! different from the other Japanese cartoons that broke through to Western audiences in the late 90s/early 2000s and some of the idiosyncrasies of localisation in Yu-Gi-Oh! Felix is @FelixirOfLife28 . He hosts the podcast Not Trans Trans Movies and the monthly comedy night Token Straight which is part of the Hysteria Collective Alan is @alan_magui...
Sep 08, 2022•1 hr 13 min•Season 1Ep. 158
Singer-songwriter Carlo Magliocco joins Alan and Andrea to talk about Soundgarden and Audioslave frontman Chris Cornell. We talk about how Cornell was always more then the stereotypical rock frontman that a casual look at his work might lead you to believe, the thought and intentionality of his solo shows, and Carlo tells us about the time he got to meet the man himself. Carlo is @Carlo_Magliocco . His album Calendar is on Spotify. Alan is @alan_maguire . Juvenalia is his main thing right now. A...
Aug 25, 2022•59 min•Season 1Ep. 157
Emer McLysaght, one half of the Oh My God What A Complete Aisling books and our fifth ever guest returns to talk to us about the Adrian Mole series. Emer was obsessed with all of the Adrian Mole books as a youngster, Alan read and loved the first one as a child but then got distracted by Terry Pratchett and never returned, and Andrea read The Secret Diary Of for the first time for this episode so we’re really covering what we in the Juvenalia business call “The Experience Gamut” Emer is @EmerThe...
Aug 11, 2022•1 hr 6 min•Season 1Ep. 156
The Lighthouse Cinema very kindly asked us to do a live episode as part of their Not Another Teen Season and we said absolutely yes of course we will. Alan and Andrea talked to the programmer at the Lighthouse, Charlene Lydon, about Pretty In Pink and we got into it. We had a long, enjoyable chat about every aspect of the film: the music, the dress, Harry Dean Stanton, Annie Potts, all the important stuff. There was one Team Duckie person in the audience, one Team Steff, and everybody else was T...
Jul 28, 2022•1 hr 6 min•Season 1Ep. 155
Comedian, Podcaster, and Twitch streamer Ashley Manning joins us to talk about one of the biggest Disney Channel shows of all time, That’s So Raven . We talk about Raven-Symoné’s amazing physical comedy, Anneliese van der Pol’s amazing voice, the Undercover Superstar episode which indirectly led to High School Musical, the show’s willingness to tackle big issues like body image and race head-on in a way other early noughties shows didn’t, and lots more. Ashley is @AManComedian . She co-hosts The...
Jul 14, 2022•57 min•Season 1Ep. 154
Women’s Prize longlisted author Kirsty Capes joins us to talk about the books of Jacqueline Wilson. We focused on three in particular, The Story Of Tracy Beaker, The Illustrated Mum, and Lola Rose but the conversation took in a lot more than that. We talked about Jacqueline Wilson’s fearlessness, how the topics in her books intersected with Kirsty’s life, and about Kirsty’s PhD which was about depictions of care homes in fiction. It was a fascinating chat. Kirsty is @kirstycapes . Her latest nov...
Jul 01, 2022•54 min•Season 1Ep. 153
DJ and host of Housewives And Me Conor Behan returns to Juvenalia to talk about Scream. We talked about Scream way back in episode 8 but we’ve had a whole Scream Requel since then and we’re all different people now so we thought it was worth a revisit. We talked about brand activations, lens flare, press junket misdirects, the requel, and lots more. This episode came out before it was revealed that Neve Campbell would not be returning for Scream 6. Hopefully some day soon Neve Campbell will be p...
Jun 16, 2022•58 min•Season 1Ep. 152
Comedian Aoife O’Connor joins us to talk about 2001’s cult classic consumerism satire/teen drama/fake rock biopic Josie and the Pussycats . We talked about the fashion, the Parker Posey, the Alan Cumming, the absolute bangers that make up the Pussycats’s music, a very serious Josie-inspired crime Aoife committed, and lots more. Aoife has been obsessed with this film since they were ten years old so it was a joy to step inside their Josie-brain. Aoife is @aoifebella . You should go see them do co...
Jun 02, 2022•46 min•Season 1Ep. 151
Singer of sad bops Eve Belle joins us to talk about her intense teenage feelings about My Chemical Romance, being a Donegal emo, misogyny in music, Gerard Way as a gender role model, and her own approach to the aesthetic side of being a musician. Also, Alan makes a startling confession. Eve is @EveBelleSongs . Her brilliant album In Between Moments is out NOW. Alan is @alan_maguire . Juvenalia is his main thing right now. Sarah is @griffski . Her books are in all good bookshops. Thank you to Dee...
May 18, 2022•1 hr 2 min•Season 1Ep. 150
Author Josh Winning joins us to talk about Jim Henson and Frank Oz’s most challenging creation, The Dark Crystal . Josh’s novel The Shadow Glass has been described as a love letter to Labyrinth and The Dark Crystal so we had a lot to talk about such as The Dark Crystal ‘s let-the-audience-figure-it-out approach to worldbuilding, the depth of that worldbuilding once you get a handle on it, the moments of humour in an otherwise pretty serious film, Jim Henson’s reading habits, the groundbreaking p...
May 05, 2022•1 hr 17 min•Season 1Ep. 149
Louise Gaffney of Irish new-wave ambient band Dirty Dreamer joined us to talk about what many people regard as the greatest album of the noughties, Radiohead’s Kid A . We talk about how Kid A sounded in 2000, how it sounds, how it influenced Dirty Dreamer, and we talked about making music that sounds like it’s happening in a specific location. You can find Dirty Dreamer @dirty_dreamer_ . Their debut album The Everyday in Bloom is out now. They play the Workman’s Cellar on June 2nd. Alan is @alan...
Apr 21, 2022•57 min•Season 1Ep. 148
It’s a live show! Bláithín De Burca returned to Juvenalia to talk to Alan and guest co-host Andrea Cleary at the Foolhardy Festival in Waterford!. We had a good long chat about The Strokes, partly about the music and partly about their faces. We talked about the clothes, the mythmaking production choices on Is This It and their first videos, the music they destroyed and the bands that were created in their wake. We had a great time. Thanks to everybody who came to see us, we love all 25,000 of y...
Apr 08, 2022•53 min•Season 1Ep. 147
Carly Monardo of Rude Tales of Magic and Birdgirl returns to talk about a show that had a huge influence on her, 2004's Green Wing . We picked sides in the love triangle at the heart of the show, talked about improv, the scary amount of now-famous people in the show, the physical commitment of the actors, and about the balance of meanness and earnestness in comedy. It was fun! Carly is @whirringblender . You can find Rude Tales of Magic and Oh These, Those Stars Of Space in the podcast places an...
Mar 24, 2022•1 hr 14 min•Season 1Ep. 146
Journalist and author Phil Ellis joins us as we return to the topic of very first episode: Luc Besson’s 1997 day-glo sci-fi epic The Fifth Element . It’s been six years this month since we last talked about it and we’re all different people so we thought why not. We talk about Ruby Rhod, the power of love, very long prologues, and the clothes, the clothes, the clothes. Phil is @Philip_Ellis . He’s a contributing editor at Men’s Health magazine and has exciting news coming soon! Alan is @alan_mag...
Mar 03, 2022•1 hr•Season 1Ep. 145
Author and journalist Edel Coffey joins us to talk about the Joel Schumacher's comedy-horror VHS classic, The Lost Boys and there was a lot to talk about! Things like Alan and Sarah’s preconceptions of the film, the power of Two Coreys, the face of Jason Patric, the confidence of Kiefer Sutherland, the jokes, the gore, the music, the saxophone, and much more. Edel is @edelcoffey . Her novel Breaking Point is out now and was number one in the Irish charts of time of recording! Alan is @alan_magui...
Feb 17, 2022•58 min•Season 1Ep. 144
Author, Podcaster, and our fifth Beatle, Caroline O’Donoghue returns to talk about Hayao Miyazaki’s 2001 masterpiece Spirited Away. We talk about Yubaba as magical girlboss, unsettling giant babies, how we feel about Spirited Away merch, games we think have a hint of Spirited Away about them, and just generally ooh and aah over how good this film is. It’s so good. Caroline is @Czaroline . Her latest YA book The Gifts That Bind Us Is out Feb 3rd. Her other (excellent) books are also in all the sh...
Feb 03, 2022•57 min•Season 1Ep. 143
Hello! We had a scheduling mix up. It happens, no big deal but it means we don’t have a new episode this week. We thought you might like our most recent Patreon bonus episode though. It’s from our bonus series Started/Finished where we talk about what we’ve started and finished recently. In this episode we talked about Yellowjackets (no spoilers), Get Back, Wytchwood (no spoilers), and Succession (spoliers, big spoilers). This is an edited version of the episode that went out to our Patreon supp...
Jan 21, 2022•50 min
Artist and writer Aoife Dooley joins us to to talk about beloved naughties dinnertime staple, Malcolm In The Middle . We talked about our favourite episodes, similarities between Malcolm family and our families, Sarah and Aoife have a lengthy digression about where some of The Snapper was filmed. It was a good time! The show wasn’t streaming anywhere legally in Ireland when we recorded this and then a week later it became available on Disney+. Did we have something to do with that? We’ll never t...
Jan 06, 2022•51 min•Season 1Ep. 142
Happy holidays to one and all! We had planned to do something big and special in the studio but well, y’know, so instead we gathered some of our Juvenalia family remotely to talk about our favourite Christmas music. We accidentally talked about Baby, It’s Cold Outside for far too long even though it wasn’t on any of our lists but you’ll be glad to hear that we’ve finally sorted that whole situation out. Thanks to everybody who’s listened to us this year. It means the world to us that people make...
Dec 23, 2021•1 hr 28 min
Comedian and writer Fiona Frawley joins us to talk about the rite of passage for many Irish schoolchildren, The Nativity Play. Not Alan though, his school was run by lax Catholics who didn’t bother with nativities. We talked about the plot, the theme, the characters of the nativity but also jumped off into a wider talk about growing up in a Catholic school system in a decreasingly Catholic society. That’s right, we Juvenaliaed it. Fiona is @FionaFrawl . She’s very funny, you should follow her. A...
Dec 09, 2021•48 min•Season 1Ep. 141
Teenagers! We’ve all been them. And yet, they’re terrifying. And none are more terrifying than the kids from Skins. Andrea Cleary and Amelia Cullen join us to re-examine it through the lens of four people aged 14-22 when the first episode aired. You might notice that this is an extra-long episode and that’s because we had an excellent chat. Hope you enjoy it! Andrea is @AndreaCleary__. You can hear more of her on My Favourite Album and the Nialler9 Podcast. Amelia is @AmeliaAmyJane. Her podcast ...
Nov 25, 2021•1 hr 42 min•Season 1Ep. 140
Singer-songwriter Maria Kelly joins Alan and guest co-host Cassie Delaney to talk about ever slightly alternative millennial’s favourite film of 2007, Juno . We talk about the soundtrack, JK Simmons and Alison Janney, Elliot Page’s amazing performance, how to avoid becoming Mark as you get older, being obsessed with Michael Cera, Kimya Dawson, we even talk about the colour grading. Honest to blog, it’s a great film and we had a great time talking about it. Maria is @MariaKellyMusic . Her amazing...
Nov 11, 2021•41 min•Season 1Ep. 139
Happy Halloween! When Julie Hough was on the show for episode 135, she mentioned that it would be cool if we did a Halloween Special about Halloween Specials and she was absolutely right! So we got Julie and our most knowledgeable telly friend Jenn Gannon to come back and have a chat with us about our favourite ever Halloween Specials! We talked about Sabrina, Community, Angry Beavers, Hey Arnold!, Freaks and Geeks, Buffy, and more. A spooktacular time was had by all. Julie is still @julie_hawk_...
Oct 28, 2021•1 hr 23 min
Artist/Producer Elaine Mai joins us on a track by track journey through an album that was huge for her as a child, ABBA Gold! There’s not much more to say than that. It’s an amazing album and we enthuse wildly about pretty much every song. We covered ABBA in a more general sense back in episode 42 with Tara Flynn so if you want more ABBA chat after this then head over there. Elaine is @elainemaimusic . Her brilliant album Home is out now and you should get it. Alan is @alan_maguire . Juvenalia i...
Oct 21, 2021•56 min•Season 1Ep. 138
Stand-up comedian and writer-producer-actress multi-hyphenate Allie O’Rourke joins us to talk about a bit of pop culture that was important to her during her second puberty, The Chris Gethard Show. We talk about the show’s public access origins, Chris Gethard’s hosting style, how the show inspired Allie in all the creative stuff she makes, and about how One Man’s Trash is the single greatest episode of television of all time. It was a fun one. Allie is @allie_orourke on Twitter. Her new thing Hy...
Oct 14, 2021•50 min•Season 1Ep. 137
Head of research and projects at Tall Tales and host of All Things Considered Amelia Cullen joins us to talk about the forbidden book, V.C. Andrews’ Flowers In The Attic . We talk about reading things you’re not supposed to read, try to grapple with why the book has had such a grip on generations of teenage girls, and try to figure out how we should feel about Flowers In The Attic in 2021. Amelia is @ameliaamyjane on instagram and twitter. Her excellent podcast All Things Considered is everywher...
Sep 30, 2021•59 min•Season 1Ep. 136
HAVVK singer and bassist Julie Hough joins us to talk about the short-lived suburban-weirdness comedy Eerie, Indiana. We traced its influences and descendants, marvelled at its ability to compress huge ideas into self-contained, 22 minute, kid-friendly episodes, and generally bonded over how good this show is. Julie is @julie_hawk_ on Instagram and HAVVK is @havvkmusic . Their fantastic new album Levelling is out Sep 17th. Alan is @alan_maguire. Juvenalia is his main thing right now. Sarah is @g...
Sep 17, 2021•1 hr•Season 1Ep. 135
We usually like to cover the big obsessions here at Juvenalia. The thing that was YOUR thing. But what about the little things that had an outsized effect on you? You were never obsessed with it but it’s never quite left your mind. Alan messed up and didn’t book a guest in time for this week’s episode so he and Sarah talked about some of the smaller bits of pop culture that have been lodged in their brains but would never make a full Juvenalia episode. Topics covered this episode include: Surfin...
Sep 01, 2021•35 min•Season 1Ep. 134
Comedian Ian Lynam joins us to talk about the long-running BBC sci-fi sitcom Red Dwarf. We talk about our favourite episodes, the ease with which the show navigates high-concept ideas, the ways the show largely sidestepped the kinds of jokes that have aged badly in its contemporaries, and a lot more. It was very fun. Ian is @quixoticclown . His Dublin Fringe show Autistic Licence is currently sold out but maybe you can find a ticket somewhere. Alan is @alan_maguire . Juvenalia is his main thing ...
Aug 19, 2021•48 min•Season 1Ep. 133
