Juvenalia

HELLO! It’s a bonus episode of Juvenalia. We’re delighted to present the pilot episode of Movieboyz, a very special podcast starring some of the biggest boyz in Hollywood. So here’s what happened. We’ve been trying to get Lukas Haas on the show for ages but he was reluctant. We just couldn’t find the right way to entice him to come on. We found out that Lukas really wants to make a podcast with his friends but he’s infamously thrifty and refuses to pay for recording time. HeadStuff have started making their podcast studio available to the public for a small fee so we offered the use of the studio free of charge to Mr. Haas if he’d agree to appear on the show with us. He agreed and turned up with his friends Tobey Maguire, Leonardo Di Caprio, and Kevin “Nick” Connolly, better known as the Pussy Posse from fifteen years ago. They recorded this and then disappeared into the sunset, leaving us with no Lukas Haas interview and twenty minutes of Hollywood stars trying to remember what films they’ve been in. Enjoy.

Alan and Ellen were joined by comedian Liam Nugent and Fr. Declan Quigg of the Film Palz podcast to talk about The Exorcist. Things went awry. Truths were revealed. We all learned a lot about ourselves and each other. It’s kind of about The Exorcist and kind of about trendy loolas and kind of about The Godfather and kind of about Liam’s mam. We hope you like it.  You can hear more from Fr. Quigg and occasionally Liam Nugent on the Sunday Sermon podcast. Liam Nugent performs regularly at his local community centre and tries out jokes on twitter Special thanks to Giles Brody and Peter McGann for putting us in touch with Quigg and Nugent. We are forever changed.  Follow Juvenalia on Twitter  Juvenalia original artwork by Dee McDonnell This episode was produced by Alan Maguire and Alan Bennett, The Two Alans.

Roe McDermott is the Sex & Sexuality columnist for The Dublin Inquirer, a film critic for Hot Press, and a Fulbright scholar. Somehow, we convinced her to come on our podcast to talk about Wolfgang Petersen’s 1984 children’s fantasy classic The NeverEnding Story. Roe joined Sarah and Alan to talk youth, Trump, depression, feminism, rockbiters, safe spaces, Pantigate, and luck dragons, and we address the most important question of our time: Is Twitter actually Fantasia? The hour just flew by.  Hello if you’re joining us for the first time because of a list you may have seen us on. Hopefully you’ll stick around. If you like us maybe consider subscribing and leaving a review? Also, Sarah’s AMAZING novel Spare And Found Parts is out now so you should buy it and enjoy it as much as I did. Follow Juvenalia on Twitter  Juvenalia original artwork by Dee McDonnell This episode was produced by Alan Maguire and Alan Bennett, The Two Alans.

Hello and welcome to the Juvenalia Christmas Spectacular 2016. We gathered some past and future guests around the Juvenalia table to talk Christmas with us. We were *very* surprised by the topics that came up and can pretty much guarantee that you will be too. We won’t spoil too much but if you want a Christmas podcast that features Elon Musk, the Titanic Museum, famous graveyards, Karen Carpenter, and beards within beards, you’re in the right place.  So who was there? Here’s who was there: Alan Maguire – Co-host of Juvenalia Ellen Tannam – Co-host of Juvenalia, and Silicon Republic writer Sarah Maria Griffin – Co-host of Juvenalia, author of Spare and Found Parts, writer of many non-fiction things including Not Lost Jeanne Sutton – Deputy Editor of Stellar Magazine Valerie Loftus – Writer for the Daily Edge Darragh McCausland – Writer Ceri Bevan – HeadStuff Contributor Shawna Scott – Proprietor of SexSiopa.ie and host of Our Sexual History Peter Dunne – Playwright and brains behind Morb Tara F

Sinéad Gleeson is a broadcaster, writer, editor of three short story anthologies, host of The Book Show on Radio One, half of The Anti-Room, and all round enviable sound person. She very kindly joined Alan and Ellen to talk about Top of the Pops and related matters. We were a little in awe of her because she’s very cool and interviews important authors and musicians all the time and we’re two plucky ragamuffins just trying our best. We plied her with donuts until she liked us and we had a good old chat. As well as TOTP, we talked about where the young people get their music from these days, hearing songs properly in big clubs, Buster Bloodvessel related accidents, interviewing Kate Bush and loads of other little bits.  Juvenalia is eighteen episodes old! We can legally drink now. We wouldn’t do that though because drinking is immoral.  Follow Juvenalia on Twitter Juvenalia original artwork by Dee McDonnell This episode was produced by Alan Bennett and Alan Maguire.

Playwright Peter Dunne joins Alan & Ellen to talk about Jack Clayton’s extremely terrifying 1961 horror film The Innocents starring Deborah Kerr. We talked about all kinds of stuff: watching inappropriate things when you’re young which is basically the theme of Juvenalia, creepy children, Salem, Amityville, local mythology, whether any of us actually believe in the supernatural (spoiler: some of us do), Ouija boards, demonic possession, fear, nature v nurture, and loads more. Peter was great, we loved him. Obviously it would have been nice to get this episode out in time for Halloween but that’s not how we roll here and in fact, late November could be a perfect time to watch The Innocents for the first time. Who knows? Peter’s audio horror walking experience Eerie is in Smock Alley until November 30th so get your skates on and Peter’s extreme immersive horror club Morb could be happening anywhere, maybe even behind you right now. Probably not though, probably somewhere scary.  Follow Juvenalia on Twi

Anna Carey is a journalist and the author of the Real Rebecca series of YA books and the upcoming The Making Of Mollie about the Irish suffragette movement. She sat down with Alan and Ellen for a DELIGHTFUL chat about 80s British girl’s comics like Mandy and Bunty. It was very informative and fun and I urge you to seek out some of the comics for yourself.  Follow Juvenalia on Twitter   Juvenalia original artwork by Dee McDonnell This episode was produced by Alan Bennett.

One of our favourite standups and people Andréa Farrell joined Alan & Ellen to talk about Stephen Spielberg’s classic Jaws. Inspired by Spielberg’s sparing use of the shark in Jaws, we often talked about everything and anything besides Jaws, making the bits where we actually talked about the film all the more special. Make sure to listen to the whole thing as at some point we decided to record an episode within an episode about To Kill A Mockingbird just because. This was fun. Talk soon. ok bye. bye. byebyebye.  Follow Juvenalia on Twitter  Juvenalia original artwork by Dee McDonnell This episode was produced by Eugene Brennan.  This episode was sponsored by the March for Choice which takes place on Saturday the 24th of September, assembling at the Garden of Remembrance on Parnell Square from 1.30pm

Shawna Scott is the founder of Sex Siopa, Ireland’s first health and design focused sex shop. She’s also a Romy and Michele’s High School Reunion fanatic who has been waiting “her entire life” to talk about it at length. She talked to Alan and Sarah for a long time about the film, being a bit of a weirdo growing up, the Pacific North-West, choreographed dance routines with Alan Cumming, the magic of Lisa Kudrow, Mira Sorvino’s magical voice, cool kids, and loads more. It was fun.  Follow Juvenalia on Twitter  Juvenalia original artwork by Dee McDonnell This episode was produced by Eugene Brennan.  This episode was sponsored by the March for Choice which takes place on Saturday the 24th of September, assembling at the Garden of Remembrance on Parnell Square from 1.30pm

Elva Carri is the founder of Girl Crew, a brilliant idea that’s been changing the lives of women all over the world since it started. She joined Alan and Ellen to talk about The Den, another brilliant idea that changed lives all over Ireland in the 80s, 90s, and part of the 00s. We talked about Ray D’Arcy, Ian Dempsey, the other humans who we didn’t remember all that much, Zig & Zag, Zuppy, Dustin, Snotser, Socky, Podge & Rodge, and the grim inevitability of death.  Follow Juvenalia on Twitter   Juvenalia original artwork by Dee McDonnell This episode was produced by Eugene Brennan This episode was sponsored by JUST EAT.

Comedian, actor, writer, philanthropist, and host of The Alison Spittle Show, Alison Spittle, joins Alan and Sarah for a trip down memory lane as we talk about our wild and varied experiences with chat rooms and message boards. Alison was an old-fashioned troll, the good funny kind not the ones that harass people on Twitter, Alan was boring but earnest, and Sarah forged deep friendships. We cover all the angles here. Alison had to duck out early to record her own podcast so we didn’t get to everything we’d have liked but we’re definitely, definitely having Alison back real soon.   Follow Juvenalia on Twitter Juvenalia original artwork by Dee McDonnell This episode was produced by Alan Bennett This episode was sponsored by JUST EAT.

Comedian Teresa Coyne joins Alan and Ellen to talk about the lesser-known but actually quite good YA series The Saddle Club. It was kind of an equine Babysitter’s Club. Teresa was a fan, Alan’s now a convert, Ellen was jetlagged. A good time was had by all. We learn all about the Saddle Club and Teresa's own history with horses stopping along the way to learn the history of dressage, horse maintenance, helicopter schools, moving from London to the West of Ireland, Dustin the Turkey, car boot sales, old Irish methods for warding off faerie folk, aristocratic French shoe customs, ghostwriters, the majesty of Bonnie Bryant, disappointing TV adaptations, and lots of other stuff. It's a good one. We liked Teresa a lot, you will too.  Follow Juvenalia on Twitter  Juvenalia original artwork by Dee McDonnell This episode was produced by Alan Bennett This episode was sponsored by Bunsen.

Darragh McCausland is a writer whose work has appeared in The Dublin Review, Lighthouse, Gorse, and Stonecutter. On this episode of Juvenalia he talks to Alan and Sarah about, well, loads of stuff really but we start with early first-person shooter Wolfenstein 3D. From there we move on to shareware, being bad at computer games, isometric viewpoints, Eve Online, multiplayer vs singleplayer, the Atari 7800, Dads playing games, Charlie Brooker, German FPS Smugglers, Green Blood, the first person to know about computers in Kells, First Person Nausea, Let's Play videos, Abandonware, FEZ, stylised graphics are better than realistic graphics, True Detective season 2, being a woman who likes games, and being or not being a gamer. And also a bit of Barthes and Adorno because we're ~fancy~.  Follow Juvenalia on Twitter  Juvenalia original artwork by Dee McDonnell This episode was produced by Alan Bennett and Alan Maguire This episode was sponsored by Bunsen.

Journalist and Legless In Dublin creator Louise Bruton joins Alan & Ellen to talk about Wes Craven's Scream. We're also joined by Louise's dog Harry who can be heard voicing his appreciation for the combination of vulnerability and humour that Neve Campbell brings to the role of Sidney. We also talk about Kevin Williamson's vast pop culture empire, the Scream quadrilogy in general, the death of teen movies, why is modern horror so grim, fake blood, meta jokes, the 90s, the career of Matthew Lillard, Courtney Cox's brilliance as Gail Weathers, and loads more. Louise also has lots of Scream fun facts to drop on us. It's a fun one. Enjoy.  Follow Juvenalia on Twitter  Juvenalia original artwork by Dee McDonnell This episode was produced by Alan Bennett and Alan Maguire This episode was sponsored by Bunsen.

2FM DJ and writer Louise McSharry joins Alan Maguire and Sarah Maria Griffin to talk about 80s CLASSIC Dirty Dancing. We brought a wide range of Dirty Dancing experience to the episode. Louise has seen Dirty Dancing many, many times. Alan saw it once when he was like eight or nine. Sarah watched it for the first time that morning. Did she like it? Have a listen and find out. What else did we talk about? Good question. We talked: a lot about how dreamy Patrick Swayze is. A lot. A whole lot. About being too young to watch Dirty Dancing, about our respective weddings and the kinds of dancing we got up to, about plastic surgery, about fictional summer camps, about music, about The Fountainhead, and many other things.  Hey, if you’ve read this far then maybe consider subscribing and leaving a rating or review on iTunes? That’d be nice of you. Follow Juvenalia on Twitter   Juvenalia original artwork by Dee McDonnell This episode was produced by Alan Bennett

Oh My God What A Complete Aisling co-author Emer McLysaght joined Alan Maguire and Ellen Tannam to talk about Jurassic Park – the movie and the book, palaeontology, transition year work experience, the importance of posters, Sam Neill, Jeff Goldblum, Laura Dern, Lex, early 90s knock off merchandise, phone covers, entering competitions in women’s magazines, Gilmore Girls, and loads more. It’s a fun hour. The fantastic twitter account we were talking about near the end is @TheTimMurphy. Ok, see you next time! Bye! Follow Juvenalia on Twitter  Juvenalia original artwork by Dee McDonnell This episode was produced by Alan Bennett

Academic and writer Sinéad Burke of Minnie Mélange joins Alan and Sarah Maria Griffin to talk about the many ways in which Disney’s Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs has been a part of her life. We talk about pantos, romantic gestures, Sinéad’s amazing parents and family, the Poll Tax, Alternative Miss Ireland, Willow, Representations of little people in the media, making some of the seven dwarfs female, female friendship in Disney films, The George, Pantibliss, Peter Dinklage, Warwick Davis, Pierce Brosnan, Pixels, Snow White and the Huntsman, Maureen Grant, The Olympia, how casting people of average height as little people is stupid and offensive, and loads and loads about Sinéad Burke and Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. ENJOY Juvenalia original artwork by Dee McDonnell

Giles Brody of The Mess Around and The Sunday Sermon Podcast talks to Alan and Ellen Tannam about Ghostbusters. At least that was the plan. It turned into more of a Ghostbusters-themed chat. We enjoyed it though, hopefully you will too. We talked about a lot of things including bingo playing taxi drivers, Eddie Murphy, Nas, John Belushi, Animal House, Michael Cera, Be Here Now, Crystal Skull Vodka, The House of Blues, Giles’s New University, Horses, Rick Moranis is sound, Ellen Hates Garry Shandling, celebrity atheism, Bill Murray several times in various ways, Groundhog Day, Harold Ramis, A Tom Cruise Film That I Refuse To Check The Name Of, creative partnerships, A phonecall from Sarah Silverman, meeting your heroes, Thom Yorke, funny people with guns, Micallef, Donegal People, the real reason Michael Collins was killed, De Valera, Cathal Brugha is hardcore, army friends, short men, Home Alone, visa issues, Problem Child 2, the new Ghostbusters movie, and loads of other bits.  If you’ve read this far t

Writer Jeanne Sutton joins Alan Maguire and Sarah Maria Griffin to talk about Disney’s Beauty and the Beast. We have a good long chat about things like, but not limited to, Disney On Ice, big books, romance novels, problematic favs, Lena Dunham, angry wardrobes, if you were Belle would you stay in the castle, Twitter beefs, DVD commentaries, Les Miserables, The 10th Kingdom, The Wolf Among Us, Jupiter Ascending, which version of the Beast is the sexy beast? is Sarah Maria Griffin a furry? Shrek, Angela Carter, Bluebeard, Tom Hiddleston, Disney cruises, Stockholm Syndrome, the Good Nazi narrative, Inspirational Romance Novels, Bollywood, and giving Zach Snyder’s money to women. A busy episode I’m sure you’ll agree.  Thanks for listening btw! It means a lot. If you subscribed and rated or even reviewed us on iTunes it would be amazing. Ok thanks, bye.  Juvenalia original artwork by Dee McDonnell

Welcome to the first of the Juvenalia minisodes. In this minisode, Alan Maguire and Ellen Tannam do a dramatic reading of chapter one of R.L. Stine’s Point Horror classic, Beach Party. More chapters will follow in future minisodes. Alan and Ellen have never read Beach Party and are excited to see where this all leads. Not much more to say about this one really. Enjoy.  Juvenalia original artwork by Dee McDonnell