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 main thing right now.

Sarah is ⁠@griffski⁠. Her new novel Eat The Ones You Love is also out right now.

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’ve started and finished recently. We also have some free lil bits of merch. It's ⁠patreon.com/juvenalia

This episode was produced by Alan Maguire

Juvenalia is a Tall Tales podcast. Thank you Cassie.

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 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 recently. We also have some free lil bits of merch. It's patreon.com/juvenalia

This episode was produced by Alan.

Juvenalia is a Tall Tales podcast. Thank you Cassie.

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. Ghostwatch is frequently listed as one of the scariest TV moments of all time. Ghostwatch was written by Stephen Volk and directed by Lesley Manning.

Comics writer and artist Nick Roche joins us to relive his experience of watching Ghostwatch, aged 13, dressed as Batman for Halloween.

Nick is @NickRoche. His orignal graphic novel Scarenthood is out now and he’s currently the robot designer for Transformers:EarthSpark on Nickolodeon.

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 recently. We also have some free lil bits of  merch. It's patreon.com/juvenalia

This episode was produced by Alan.

Juvenalia is a Tall Tales podcast. Thank you Cassie.

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 many books are in all good bookshops and her many zines are at sarahmariagriff.com

Thank you to Dee McDonnell for our artwork.

We have a Patreon! You can get bonus episodes and free lil bits of merch. It's patreon.com/juvenalia 

Juvenalia is a Tall Tales podcast. Thank you Cassie.

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 you should be. 

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 

Thank you to Dee McDonnell for our artwork. 

We have a Patreon! You can get bonus episodes and free lil bits of merch. It's patreon.com/juvenalia 

This episode was produced and wrangled by Cassie Delaney. Thank you Cassie. Juvenalia is a Tall Tales podcast.

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 Bandwagons which she co-hosts with Bríd Browne is in all the podcast places. 

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 

Thank you to Dee McDonnell for our artwork. 

We have a Patreon! You can get bonus episodes and free lil bits of merch. It's patreon.com/juvenalia 

Juvenalia is a Tall Tales podcast. Thank you Cassie.

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 nice hour, we could all do with a nice hour.

You can find Wren on twitter at @AvocaReaction where they'll be announcing exciting upcoming projects and such.

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

Thank you to Dee McDonnell for our artwork.

We have a Patreon! You can get bonus episodes and free lil bits of merch. It's patreon.com/juvenalia

Juvenalia is a Tall Tales podcast. Thank you Cassie.

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 you get to listen to Cassie talk about Sister Act II and Alan talk about The Bends. In between there's lots of talk about choirs and just the joy of singing in harmony. Happy new year everybody.

Also, near the end of the episode Cassie looks at her phone and realises that an attempted coup is happening in the US Capitol so listen out for that little piece of history.

Cassie is @cassielorraine. She runs Tall Tales, the podcast network that this very podcast appears on and co-hosts The Creep Dive.

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

Thank you to Dee McDonnell for our artwork.

We have a Patreon! You can get bonus episodes and free lil bits of merch. It's patreon.com/juvenalia

Juvenalia is a Tall Tales podcast. Thank you Cassie.

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 Christmas episode we wanted to do so we did this instead. Hope you like it whenever you listen to it! Happy last week of the year, thanks for sticking with us this year xx

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

Thank you to Dee McDonnell for our artwork.

We have a Patreon! You can get bonus episodes and free lil bits of merch. It's patreon.com/juvenalia

Juvenalia is a Tall Tales podcast. Thank you Cassie.

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 independent podcast network Night Vale Presents.

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

Thank you to Dee McDonnell for our artwork.

We have a Patreon! You can get bonus episodes and free lil bits of merch. It's patreon.com/juvenalia

Juvenalia is a Tall Tales podcast. Thank you Cassie.

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 the director of MoLI. Their online shop is full of potential Christmas presents and the museum is an amazing place to visit 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

Thank you to Dee McDonnell for our artwork.

We have a Patreon! You can get bonus episodes and free lil bits of merch. It's patreon.com/juvenalia

Juvenalia is a Tall Tales podcast. Thank you Cassie.

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 should, find Double Love on all good podcast apps.

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

Thank you to Dee McDonnell for our artwork.

We have a Patreon! You can get bonus episodes and free lil bits of merch. It's patreon.com/juvenalia

Juvenalia is a Tall Tales podcast. Thank you Cassie.

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 zoom and everybody drifts a lil bit in and out of sync sometimes. We're not being rude and talking over each other, we're all just trying out best.

Nealo is @NellydaSilla on Twitter. His debut album All The Leaves Are Falling is out Oct 30th. 

Andrea is @AndreaCeary_. You can hear her on the Nialler9 podcast and subscribe to her newsletter at andreacleary.substack.com

Alan is @alan_maguire. Juvenalia is his main thing.

Juvenalia is @Juvenalia_Pod on twitter and @JuvenaliaPod on Instagram. We have a Patreon! It's patreon.com/juvenalia. Patrons get bonus episodes and other little bits and pieces too.

Thank you to Dee McDonnell for our artwork.

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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 autumn albums and then pick GILMORE GIRLS as a TV rec)
Midnight Mass (Netflix)

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 recently. If you liked this episode you’ll liove Started/Finished. We also have some free lil bits of merch. It's patreon.com/juvenalia

This episode was produced by Alan.

Juvenalia is a Tall Tales podcast. Thank you Cassie.

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. Juvenalia is his main thing right now.

Andrea is @AndreaCleary_. She co-hosts the Nialler9 podcast and her writing appears regularly in The Sunday Business Post among many others. You can find her new newsletter about playlists here

This was our first episode back on Zoom and there was a lil technical hiccup with the audio which means you might find it a bit quiet in places. Sorry about that, the next one will be aurally dazzling. 

Thank you to Dee McDonnell for our artwork.

We have a Patreon! You can get bonus episodes and free lil bits of merch. It's patreon.com/juvenalia

Juvenalia is a Tall Tales podcast 

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 Cassie.

Thank you to Dee McDonnell for our artwork.

We have a Patreon! You can get bonus episodes and free lil bits of merch. It's patreon.com/juvenalia

Juvenalia is a Tall Tales podcast

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 her many zines are at sarahmariagriff.com

This episode was produced by Cassie Delaney. Thank you Cassie.

Thank you to Dee McDonnell for our artwork.

We have a Patreon! You can get bonus episodes and free lil bits of merch. It's patreon.com/juvenalia

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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 out Candyman because it's v v good. 

Conner is on twitter @ConnerHabib. You can find his podcast, Against Everyone with Conner Habib and his other work at Patreon.com/connerhabib

 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 McDonnell for our artwork. 

We have a Patreon! You can get bonus episodes and free lil bits of merch. It's patreon.com/juvenalia  

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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 all good bookshops and her many zines are at sarahmariagriff.com 

This episode was produced by Cassie and Emma. Thank you Cassie and Emma. 

Thank you to Dee McDonnell for our artwork. 

We have a Patreon! You can get bonus episodes and free lil bits of merch. It's patreon.com/juvenalia 

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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 episode was produced by Cassie and Emma. Thank you Cassie and Emma. Thank you to Dee McDonnell for our artwork. We have a Patreon! You can get bonus episodes and free lil bits of merch. It's patreon.com/juvenalia Juvenalia is a Tall Tales podcast

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 in all good bookshops and her many zines are at sarahmariagriff.com

This episode was produced by Cassie and Alan. Thank you Cassie.

Thank you to Dee McDonnell for our artwork.

We have a Patreon! You can get bonus episodes and free lil bits of merch. It's patreon.com/juvenalia

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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.

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 McDonnell for our artwork.

We have a Patreon! You can get bonus episodes and free lil bits of merch. It's patreon.com/juvenalia

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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 McDonnell for our artwork.

We have a Patreon! You can get bonus episodes and free lil bits of merch. It's patreon.com/juvenalia

Juvenalia is a Tall Tales podcast

Jennifer Quigley of I Love This Band joins us to talk about Courtney Love and Hole particularly Live Through This! It was a good chat!

Jennifer's podcast I Love This Band is available wherever the podcasts are.

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 McDonnell for our artwork.

We have a Patreon! You can get bonus episodes and free lil bits of merch. It's patreon.com/juvenalia

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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 Food Writing Award for best Instagram/TikTok account in 2023.

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 recently. We also have some free lil bits of  merch. It's patreon.com/juvenalia

This episode was produced by Alan.

Juvenalia is a Tall Tales podcast. Thank you Cassie.

Podcaster and radio host Cian Sullivan joins us to talk about Eurovision! Eurovision is huge and we are small so we dipped in and out of the bits that interested us, Cian took us through his Eurovision score card, told us what it was like to see Eurovision live, and of course we paid our respects to Riverdance.

Cian is @ciansullivan on twitter. You can listen to him on Sissy That Pod and Umbrella.

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 McDonnell for our artwork.

We have a Patreon! You can get bonus episodes and free lil bits of merch. It's patreon.com/juvenalia

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We made it to 100! We would have liked to do a live show to celebrate but well *gestures in any direction* so instead Alan, Sarah, and Ellen(!) got together on Zoom to talk about some of their favourite things from the years they were born (1984, 1988, and 1992 respectively). So what are those things? Well there's This Is Spinal Tap, The Secret History, Red Dwarf, The Replacements, Who Framed Roger Rabbit? and Barney along with a live reading of some Barney creepypasta. It was extremely nice to have the OG Juvenalia Three back together. We hope you like it too. Thanks for sticking around for a hundred episodes.

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

Ellen is @incogellen. She's in Vancouver!

This episode was produced by Cassie and Alan.

Thank you to Dee McDonnell for our artwork.

We have a Patreon! You can get bonus episodes and free lil bits of merch. It's patreon.com/juvenalia

Juvenalia is a Tall Tales podcast.

Naoise Dolan, author of the Sunday Times Bestseller Exciting Times joins us to talk about Gossip Girl! It was an absolutely FASCINATING chat about watching high school-based dramas as an autistic woman and viewing characters’ behaviours through that lens. We hope you enjoy it XOXO

NB This episode was recorded in February before everything went down, we didn’t break self-isolation to do this, we are all extremely isolated. We hope you are ok.

Naoise is @NaoiseDolan on Twitter. Exciting Times is both excellent and available now.

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 McDonnell for our artwork.

We have a Patreon! You can get bonus episodes and free lil bits of merch. It's patreon.com/juvenalia

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Music writer Dean Van Nguyen joins us to talk about the bit of pop culture that looms large in his childhood: MTV Base. In our last episode we flirted with doing a whole episode about a TV channel but this week we're going all in. We talked about Beats, Rhymes, and Life, The Lick, Jay Z vs Nas, Napster, Destiny's Child, the legacy of Jackass, and much more.  

We're still self-isolating and recording remotely so please forgive any technical hiccups or sound oddities.

Jenn is @deanvannguyen You can find his writing in Pitchfork, The Guardian, and loads of other places and his book Iron Age: The Art Of Ghostface Killah is out now.

Alan is @alan_maguire.  Juvenalia is his main thing right now.

Sarah is @griffski. Her many books are in all good bookshops.

This episode was produced and edited by Cassie and Alan.

Thank you to Dee McDonnell for our artwork.

We have a Patreon! You can get bonus episodes and free lil bits of merch. It's patreon.com/juvenalia

Sarah, Cassie, and a very cool group of women writers, many of whom have been Juvenalia guests, have launched a new project called Rogue. For €4 a month you get four great, exclusive, articles in your inbox every Sunday. You should check it out.

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Writer, broadcaster, and DJ Jenn Gannon joins us to talk about one of the foundational bits of pop culture from her youth, Interbang?! We hadn't heard of it either. Interbang?! was an Italian one series wonder that aired on The Children's Channel in the late 80s. It's hard to explain. Here's an episode

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oy7Ua38W_HM

As well as Interbang?!, we also go down a deep rabbit hole of reading the list of shows that aired on The Children's Channel. It was a trip.

This is the first episode we've recorded remotely because of The Situation so please forgive any technical hiccups or sound oddities.

Jenn is @jennpops. You can find her on Today FM, in the Irish Times, all over the place really.

Alan is @alan_maguire.  Juvenalia is his main thing right now.

Sarah is @griffski. Her many books are in all good bookshops.

This episode was produced and edited by Cassie and Alan.

Thank you to Dee McDonnell for our artwork.

We have a Patreon! You can get bonus episodes and free lil bits of merch. It's patreon.com/juvenalia

Sarah, Cassie, and a very cool group of women writers, many of whom have been Juvenalia guests, have launched a new project called Rogue. For €4 a month you get four great, exclusive, articles in your inbox every Sunday. You should check it out.

Juvenalia is a Tall Tales podcast

Andy Gaffney of Be Grand joins us to talk about a film that's been very important to him since he was a mere teen, Cameron Crowe's Vanilla Sky. We had an absolutely fascinating chat about how films change with us, accidental arthouse cinemas, sleep paralysis, hypnosis, and the possibility (based on Sarah's coat) that we're all currently in Andy's dream.

Andy is @HiAndyGaffney. His podcast Be Grand is brilliant, Alan's been on it. You should check out the other shows on his network, The Shift.

Alan is @alan_maguire.  Juvenalia is his main thing right now.

Sarah is @griffski. Her many books are in all good bookshops.

This episode was produced and edited by Cassie and Alan. 

Thank you to Dee McDonnell for our artwork.

We have a Patreon! You can get bonus episodes and free lil bits of merch. It's patreon.com/juvenalia

Sarah, Cassie, and a very cool group of women writers, many of whom have been Juvenalia guests, have launched a new project called Rogue. For €4 a month you get four great, exclusive, articles in your inbox every Sunday. You should check it out.

Juvenalia is a Tall Tales podcast

TheJournal.ie’s Aoife Barry joins us to talk about the staple of every sensitive millennial teenager’s CD collection, Jeff Buckley’s Grace. We talk about Jeff Buckley’s life and career, his influence, and Aoife’s past life as a college radio DJ.

Aoife is @SweetOblivion26. You can find her journalism at TheJournal.ie and her podcast Get Around To It on your podcast app

Alan is @alan_maguire.  Juvenalia is his main thing right now.

Sarah is @griffski. Her many books are in all good bookshops.

This episode was produced and edited by Cassie at Tall Tales. Thank you Cassie

Thank you to Dee McDonnell for our artwork.

We have a Patreon! You can get bonus episodes and free lil bits of merch. It's patreon.com/juvenalia

Sarah, Cassie, and a very cool group of women writers, many of whom have been Juvenalia guests, have launched a new project called Rogue. For €4 a month you get four great, exclusive, articles in your inbox every Sunday. You should check it out.

Comedian Bláithín de Burca of the Try Channel and I Don't Know Her joins Alan and Sarah to talk about arguably the funniest animated Disney film, The Emperor's New Groove. We talk about the majesty of Eartha Kitt, the Kronkness of Kronk, the impeccable comic timing, the first pregnant woman in a Disney animated movie, Tom Jones, and much more. 

Bláithín is @beingbla on Twitter. She co-hosts the podcast I Don't Know Her with Aoife O'Connor and it's very good.
Alan is @alan_maguire.  Juvenalia is his main thing right now.
Sarah is @griffski. Her many books are in all good bookshops.

This episode was produced and edited by Cassie and Alan.
Thank you to Dee McDonnell for our artwork.

We have a Patreon! You can get bonus episodes and free lil bits of merch. It's patreon.com/juvenalia

Sarah, Cassie, and a very cool group of women writers, many of whom have been Juvenalia guests, have launched a new project called Rogue. For €4 a month you get four great, exclusive, articles in your inbox every Sunday. You should check it out.  

Singer-Songwriter Emma Langford joins us to talk about the queen of pop-punk Avril Lavigne. There’s a lot of talk about early 00s fashion, growing up, and we wonder if maybe Avril was secretly a country artist all along.

Emma is @ELangfordMusic. Her first album Quiet Giant is out now and her next album Sowing Acorns is available to pre-order Here 

Alan is @alan_maguire.  Juvenalia is his main thing but he does standup sometimes too.

Sarah is @griffski. Sarah won Best YA book at the Irish Book Awards! She’s great.

Juvenalia is on all of the social medias, if you search for Juvenalia, you'll find us.

Juvenalia original artwork by Dee McDonnell

This episode was produced by Cassie @Tall_Tales_Podcasts. Thank you Cassie.

Also we have a Patreon! We have good rewards! It’s patreon.com/juvenalia

Writer Laura-Blaise McDowell joins us to talk about how much Florence Welch, her work with Florence + the Machine, and just Florence in general, has meant to her over the years. Laura-Blaise was an absolute joy to talk to. We also talked a bit about Patti Smith and New York and it was just a good time, we all felt refreshed after it.

Laura-Blaise is @blaisinsquad. You can read her An Post Irish Book Awards nominated short story Balloon Animals here and you should because it’s class.
Alan is @alan_maguire.  Juvenalia is his main thing but he does standup sometimes too.
Sarah is @griffski. Sarah won Best YA book at the Irish Book Awards! She’s great.

Juvenalia is on all of the social medias, if you search for Juvenalia, you'll find us.

Juvenalia original artwork by Dee McDonnell
This episode was produced by Cassie @Tall_Tales_Podcasts. Thank you Cassie.

Also we have a Patreon! We have good rewards! It’s patreon.com/juvenalia

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 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 recently. We also have some free lil bits of  merch. It's patreon.com/juvenalia

This episode was produced by Alan.

Juvenalia is a Tall Tales podcast. Thank you Cassie.

Rachel O'Neill of the Disturbing The Peace podcast joins us to talk about Lemony Snicket's A Series Of Unfortunate Events. We talk about seeing Daniel Handler read slash fic about  Count Olaf and Lemony Snicket, the importance of characters like Violet for girls who feel like they don't fit in with other girls, and just generally about how good and smart and funny these books are.

Rachel is @ronronzo. She hosts Disturbing The Peace on the Tortoise Shack Network.
Alan is @alan_maguire.  Juvenalia is his main thing but he does standup sometimes too.
Sarah is @griffski. Sarah won Best YA book at the Irish Book Awards! She’s great.

Juvenalia is on all of the social medias, if you search for Juvenalia, you'll find us.

Juvenalia original artwork by Dee McDonnell
This episode was produced by Cassie @Tall_Tales_Podcasts. Thank you Cassie.

Also we have a Patreon! We have good rewards! It’s patreon.com/juvenalia

Hello! Here's a little compilation episode of some good bits from all our episodes from the second half of 2019. It should give you a pretty good idea if Juvenalia is a podcast you might want to listen to on a regular basis. We hope you like it!

In this episode:

School Of Rock with Seán O'Reilly
Bosco with Ellen Coyne
Oprah with Sarah Hagi

2000AD with Patrick Freyne
Hercules with Tríona Gallagher
Star Trek with Lucy Vine

The NME in the 80s with Paul Duane
Aladdin with Ber Quinn
Cruel Intentions with Sarah Corcoran

Empire Records with Niamh Farrell
Enid Blyton with Cassie Delaney
The Internet in the 90s with Jen O'Dwyer

Juvenalia is produced by Cassie Delaney for Tall Tales

Juvenalia artwork by Dee McDonnell

We're on Twitter and Instagram at juvenalia_pod and juvenaliapod respectively.

You can support the show and get sone cool stuff at patreon.com/juvenalia

Hello! Here's a little compilation episode of some good bits from all our episodes from the first half of 2019. It should give you a pretty good idea if Juvenalia is a podcast you might want to listen to on a regular basis. We hope you like it!

In this episode:

The X-Files with Alan and Sarah
Under The Hawthorn Tree with Naomi O'Leary
Home And Away with Roxanna Nic Liam

Harry Potter with Michael Fry
Captain Planet with Peter Kavanagh
Robbie Keane with Kiva Reardon

The Terminator with Sarah Davis-Goff
Friends with Aisling Keenan
Art Attack! with Cassie Delaney

Buffy The Vampire Slayer with Kate Dolan
Tremors with Erin Fornoff
Freaks And Geeks with Sophie White

The first six episodes were produced by Brian for the HeadStuff Podcast Network, the last six by Cassie Delaney for Tall Tales

Juvenalia artwork by Dee McDonnell

We're on Twitter and Instagram at juvenalia_pod and juvenaliapod respectively.

You can support the show and get sone cool stuff at patreon.com/juvenalia

Happy Christmas! We gathered some of our favourite people in the Tall Tales studio to talk about Christmas stuff. It was very warm and the conversation went to mostly unexpected places. Enjoy

Roll Call

Sarah Maria Griffin (@griffski) Author and Juvenalia Host

Alan Maguire (@alan_maguire) Juvenalia Host

Ríona Gallagher (@tangeriona) Speech Therapist and Twitter Sounder

Christine Bohan (@ChristineBohan) Deputy Editor of TheJournal.ie

Peter McGann (@peterjmcgann) Actor, Comedian, and Liam Nugent Wrangler

Andrea Cleary (@AndreaCleary_) Writer and Co-Host of The Nialler9 Podcast

Jen O’Dwyer (a social media mystery) Co-Host of The Creep Dive and Mother Of Pod

Roxanna Nic Liam (@NicLiamo) Actor off of Fair City and Writer

Cassie Delaney and Scout The Dog were also there making sure everything sounded good. Thank you Cassie and Scout.

Juvenalia Artwork by Dee McDonnell.

Our $5 Patreon supporters get a second Christmas episode with Alan, Sarah, and Cassie. Sign up at patreon.com/juvenalia

Thanks to everybody who supported the show this year! Ho Ho Ho

Jen O’Dwyer is one of the co-hosts of Mother Of Pod and The Creep Dive. She joined Alan and Sarah to talk about the lost world of the internet in the late 90s/early 00s. We talked about MSN messenger, when Yahoo was the only game in town, the rise of MySpace and Bebo, rotten.com, and eBaum’s World. That last sentence either flooded you with memories or was complete nonsense. If it was the former, join us.

Jen O’Dwyer can be found on Mother Of Pod and The Creep Dive. They’re both excellent.

Alan is @alan_maguire.  Juvenalia is his main thing but he does standup sometimes too.

Sarah is @griffski. Sarah won Best YA book at the Irish Book Awards! She’s great.

Juvenalia is on all of the social medias, if you search for Juvenalia, you'll find us.

Juvenalia original artwork by Dee McDonnell

This episode was produced by Cassie @Tall_Tales_Podcasts. Thank you Cassie.

Also we have a Patreon! We have good rewards! It’s patreon.com/juvenalia

Christine Bohan is the deputy editor of TheJournal.ie and the executive producer of Stardust. She joined Alan and guest co-host Cassie Delaney to talk about Enid Blyton. We talked about Blyton’s superhuman output, discussed what, if any, of her work stands up to modern tastes, our childhood reading habits, and much more

Follow Christine on twitter @ChristineBohan

Alan is @alan_maguire.  Juvenalia is his main thing but he does standup sometimes too.

Cassie is @CassieLorraine. She co-hosts The Creep Dive and runs Tall Tales Podcasts. Thank you Cassie.

Juvenalia is on all of the social medias, if you search for Juvenalia, you'll find us.

Juvenalia original artwork by Dee McDonnell

This episode was produced by Tall Tales @Tall_Tales_Podcasts.

Also we have a Patreon! We have good rewards! It’s patreon.com/juvenalia

Here's the first five minutes of our second bonus episode for $5 Patreon supporters. Alan was a Sega kid, Sarah was Nintendo. They compared notes on their gaming journeys from their 16-bit beginnings up to Untitled Goose Game. 

To hear the full episode and to support Juvenalia go to our Patreon and become a $5 supporter. 

Juvenalia artwork by Dee McDonnell.

This episode was produced by Cassie Delaney

Niamh Farrell from Ham Sandwich returned to Juvenalia to talk to Alan and guest co-host Cassie Delaney about cult classic Empire Records. We talked about music shops, how the film misleads young teens about what being an older teen is like, the soundtrack, how Ham Sandwich is a great band name, about how Empire Records is bad in a lot of ways but still very, very good, and how you should never google Rex Manning’s age.

Follow Niamh on Twitter @niamhsandwich. Ham Sandwich have a series of Christmas gigs coming up. You should go to one. The dates are at hamsandwichmusic.com

Alan is @alan_maguire. He’s doing standup at the Rogue Gallery in Waterford on Nov 11th and Lady Grew’s Sound House Sunday on Nov 17th. You should come.

Cassie is @CassieLorraine. She co-hosts The Creep Dive and runs Tall Tales Podcasts. Thank you Cassie.

Juvenalia is on all of the social medias, if you search for Juvenalia, you'll find us.

Juvenalia original artwork by Dee McDonnell

This episode was produced by Tall Tales @Tall_Tales_Podcasts.

Also we have a Patreon! We have good rewards! It’s patreon.com/juvenalia

Sarah Corcoran from Pillow Queens joined us to talk about the sexiest trash monster of 1999, Cruel Intentions. We had a great chat about Ryan Philippe, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Selma Blair, and all the gang; Sarah told us about being a film student whose favourite film is Cruel Intentions, and we talked about the amazing soundtrack. It was fun, you’ll like it.

Follow Sarah on Twitter @broccolidoggo and go to pillowqueens.com to find out where Pillow Queens are playing near you next (you should definitely do this, they’re brilliant)

Alan is @alan_maguire. He does standup sometimes but this is his main thing.

Sarah is @griffski. Her novel Other Words For Smoke is out now and her plentiful zines are available at sarahmariagriff.com

Juvenalia is on all of the social medias, if you search for Juvenalia, you'll find us.

Juvenalia original artwork by Dee McDonnell

This episode was produced by Tall Tales @Tall_Tales_Podcasts.

Also we have a Patreon! We have good rewards! It’s patreon.com/juvenalia

Ber Quinn is a sound engineer and producer who has worked with the likes of The Divine Comedy, Villagers, John Grant, and Lisa Hannigan. He joined Alan and Sarah to talk about Disney’s Aladdin. We talked about the art style, the origin of Disney’s version of the story, Robin Williams, Alan Menken’s liberal borrowing of his previous work for the songs in Aladdin, Disney’s queercoded villains, and just generally had a good old Juvenalia chat about the diamond in the rough and his friends and enemies.

Follow Ber on Twitter @berkwin

Alan is @alan_maguire. He does standup sometimes but this is his main thing.

Sarha is @griffski. Her novel Other Words For Smoke is out now and her plentiful zines are available at sarahmariagriff.com

Juvenalia is on all of the social medias, if you search for Juvenalia, you'll find us.

Juvenalia original artwork by Dee McDonnell

This episode was produced by Tall Tales @Tall_Tales_Podcasts.

Also we have a Patreon! We have good rewards! It’s patreon.com/juvenalia

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 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.

This is episode 200 of Juvenalia. Thanks to everybody who’s listened to us over the years and to all of our amazing guests.

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 recently. We also have some free lil bits of  merch. It's patreon.com/juvenalia

This episode was produced by Alan.

Juvenalia is a Tall Tales podcast. Thank you Cassie.

Bosco’s friend and puppeteer Paula Lambert joined Alan and Sarah for a very special chat. We talked about what it was like making Bosco in the 80s, Bosco’s friends, how Paula developed the character of Bosco after she took over the role from her sister, the experience of the Bosco live show, and how Bosco chooses when to engage with topics like marriage equality. It was an absolute dream to talk to Paula and she couldn’t have been more welcoming to us. Thank you Paula.

Follow Bosco on Twitter @boscosbox. Bosco is on tour! You can see them all over the place. Check out Bosco’s website for details.

Alan is @alan_maguire. Sarah is @griffski. Sarah's new novel Other Words For Smoke is out now.

Juvenalia is on all of the social medias, if you search for Juvenalia, you'll find us.

Juvenalia original artwork by Dee McDonnell

This episode was produced by Tall Tales @Tall_Tales_Podcasts.

Also we have a Patreon! We have good rewards! It’s patreon.com/juvenalia

Filmmaker Paul Duane joins Alan and guest co-host Andrea Cleary to talk about the NME in the 80s. We talk about how to find good music in pre-internet Ireland, political music writing, working class autodidacts, owning music vs streaming it, whether boxset rarities are ever worth it, and Paul’s current work with Bill Drummond. It’s a wide-ranging and it was a delight to record.

Follow Paul on Twitter @MrPaulDuane. His latest film, Best Before Death, will be showing on Friday 27th September at the IFI Documentary Festival.

Alan is @alan_maguire. He does standup sometimes but this is his main thing.

Andrea is @AndreaCleary_. She co-hosts the Nialler9 podcast and her music writing can be found at Nialler9, The Thin Air, Goldenplec, and other places too.

Juvenalia is on all of the social medias, if you search for Juvenalia, you'll find us.

Juvenalia original artwork by Dee McDonnell

This episode was produced by Tall Tales @Tall_Tales_Podcasts.

Also we have a Patreon! We have good rewards! It’s patreon.com/juvenalia

(Note: there are some sound issues with this episode. It gets better after a couple of minutes so you should stick with it. Sorry about that, it's all Alan's fault)

Author and podcaster Lucy Vine joins Alan and guest co-host Andrea Cleary to talk about Star Trek: The Original Series. We talk about Tribbles, Joan Collins, Spock, and wonder if maybe Captain Kirk has gotten an unfair rep from pop culture history.

 Follow Lucy on Twitter @lecv. Her latest novel Are We Nearly There Yet is out now and her podcast Hot Mess Clubhouse is excellent and on all the podcast places 

Alan is @alan_maguire. He does standup sometimes but this is his main thing.
Andrea is @AndreaCleary_. She co-hosts the Nialler9 podcast and her music writing can be found at Nialler9, The Thin Air, Goldenplec, and other places too.
Juvenalia is on all of the social medias, if you search for Juvenalia, you'll find us. 

Juvenalia original artwork by Dee McDonnell
This episode was produced by Tall Tales @Tall_Tales_Podcasts.
Also we have a Patreon! We have good rewards! It’s patreon.com/juvenalia