Juvenalia

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 tell. Aoife is @Aoife_Dooley . Her graphic novel for kids, Frankie’s World, is out today if you’re listening to this the day it comes out. If you’re listening to it on another day, it’s also 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 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 started and finished in the pr

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 us part of their day. Andrea is @AndreaCleary_. You can and should listen to her on The Nialler9 Podcast and My Favourite Album with Andrea Cleary. Fearghal is @fearghc. You can and should listen to his podcast Let’s Talk About The Arts and any show or performance he’s a part of. 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 fort

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. 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 started and finished in the previous two weeks. We also have some free lil bits of merch. It's patreon.com/juvenalia This episode was edited and produced by Alan Juvenalia is a Tall Tales podcast. Thank you Cassie.

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 is Lately and it is v good indeed. 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 started and finished in the previous two weeks. We also have some free lil bits of merch. It's patreon.com/juvenalia This episode was edited and produced by Amelia Cullen. Juvenalia is a Tall T

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 album The Sum Of The In-Between is available everywhere now. Alan is @alan_maguire. Juvenalia is his main thing right now. Cassie is @CassieLorraine. You can hear her every week on The Creep Dive 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 started and finished in the previous two weeks. We also have some free lil bits of merch. It's patreon.com/juvenalia This episode was edited and produce

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_ on Instagram and HAVVK is @havvkmusic. Their fantastic new album Levelling is still out and is still fantastic. Jenn is still @jennpops on Twitter. You can find her on your radio and in your publications. 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 including our fortnightly sho

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 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 including our fortnightly show Started/Finished where we talk about the pop culture we started and finished in the previous two weeks. We also have some free lil bits of merch. It's patreon.com/juvenalia This episode was edited and produced by Alan. Juvenalia is a Tall Tales podcast. Thank

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 Hysteria Comedy is launching very soon and is VERY exciting. 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 including our fortnightly show Started/Finished where we talk about the pop culture we started and finished in the previous two weeks. We also have some free lil bits of merch. It's patreon.com/ju

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 everywhere you can hear podcasts. 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 including our fortnightly show Started/Finished where we talk about the pop culture we started and finished in the previous two weeks. We also have some free lil bits of merch. It's patreon.com/juvenalia This episode was edited and produced

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 @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 including our fortnightly show Started/Finished where we talk about the pop culture we started and finished in the previous two weeks. We also have some free lil bits of merch. It's patreon.com/juvenalia This episode was edited and produced by Fearghal Curtis and Cassie Delaney. Juvenalia is a Tall Tales podcast. Thanks you Cassie.

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' GBA! by Louie Zong Pictures Don't Lie by Katherine MacLean King Of The Hill Don't Come Around Here No More by Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers Bullseye Robot Wars 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 including our fortnightly show Started/Finished where we talk about the pop culture we started and fi

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 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 including our fortnightly show Started/Finished where we talk about the pop culture we started and finished in the previous two weeks. We also have some free lil bits of merch. It's patreon.com/juvenalia Juvenalia is a Tall Tales podcast. Thank you Cassie.

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 the first two hours of Earthbound and was also on this zoom call/podcast recording. Ivan is @ivan_hernandez. Boars, Gore, and Swords is available anywhere you can find a podcast 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 including our fortnightly show Started/Finished where we talk about the pop culture we

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 animals, the Steven Universe film, and Conor's new film Bicycle Thieves: Pumped Up which is at the Galway Film Fleadh from July 22nd to 25th. Conor is @ConorOToole. You can get tickets for Bicycle Thieves: Pumped Up HERE and we really recommend that you do. Conor is brilliant and it stars a boatload of former Juvenalia guests 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

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 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 including our fortnightly show Started/Finished where we talk about the pop culture we started and finished in the previous two weeks. We also have some free lil bits of merch. It's patreon.com/juvenalia Juvenalia is a Tall Tales podcast. Thank you Cassie.

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 RnaG to hear her read the news and improve your Irish. 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.RTÉ Raidió na Gaeltachta newsreader Póilín Nic Géidigh joins us to talk about the queen of late 00s Disn

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 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.

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 Twitch 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.

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 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.

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 all her books at prettyokmaggie.com   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.