Juvenalia

Music writer and co-host of The Nialler9 Podcast Andrea Cleary joins Alan and Ellen to talk about the best little pig in the world, Babe. We talked about vegetarianism, feeling all the feelings, teaching moral lessons with animals, is Babe a sports film?, the many ways in which James Cromwell is wonderful, Alistair MacLeod short stories, Ulysses, Christine Cavanaugh, and just generally about how Babe is the sweetest little guy in cinema history.  Andrea Cleary is @AndreaCleary_ on Twitter. Her music writing can be found mostly on HeadStuff and GoldenPlec and the Nialler9 podcast is available in all the podcast places. Alan is @alan_maguire and Ellen is @incogellen. 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 and edited by Brian + Alan

Author and awards-magnet Louise O'Neill joined Alan and Sarah to talk about Enid Blyton's classic series about a fantastical tree that's not nearby, The Magic Faraway Tree. We talked about the Famous Five vs Secret Seven, the comforting repetition of Enid Blyton, updating books for modern audiences, and, seeing as we had two of Ireland's best YA authors in the studio, a lot of talk about writing YA. Then we had a patented Juvenalia digression into Adele's Titanic-themed party, the Met Gala and cultural appropriation. The usual.  Louise O'Neill is @oneilllo on Twitter. Her novels Only Ever Yours, Asking For It, Almost Love, and The Surface Breaks are all available now and are all excellent. The stage adaptation of Asking For It is in The Everyman in Cork until June 23rd and in the Abbey Theatre in Dublin from November 9th-24th. Alan is @alan_maguire and Sarah is @griffski. Juvenalia is on all of the social medias, if you search for Juvenalia, you'll find us.  Juvenalia orig

Spoken word artist Sahar Ali joins Alan and Ellen to talk about The Fresh Prince Of Bel Air. We focused on three episodes in particular: the "why don't he want me, man" episode, the one where Carlton overdoses on speed, and the one where Carlton and Will get arrested in a fancy car. We talked about representation on kids TV, Fresh Prince's willingness to leave things on a sad note, learning morals from Will Smith, and the legacy of rich, black families on TV.  Sahar is @saharmali on Twitter. Alan is @alan_maguire and Ellen is @incogellen. 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 and edited by Brian + Alan

Scott Benson, co-creator and animator of the award-winning Night In The Woods and co-founder of Late Night Work Club, joined Alan and Ellen to talk about the Indiana Jones series and many related topics including Dinosaurs, wolf re-introduction, whether Scott would win a fight with a coyote, good band names, Indiana Jones: Anti-communist?, SnakeCon, and all that good Juvenalia stuff.   Night In The Woods is one of Alan's favourite games ever so please note how relatively chill he managed to stay during this episode. Night In The Woods is available on Steam, PS4, Xbox One, and Switch.  Scott is @bombsfall on Twitter. Alan is @alan_maguire and Ellen is @incogellen. 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 and edited by Brian + Alan

Welcome to our big 50th episode party! We took over the Vintage Room in The Workman's Club and filled it with sound people. We did a little quiz and gave away some extremely desirable prizes. Then we talked to Oscar-winning graphic designer Annie Atkins whose work you've seen in The Grand Budapest Hotel, Isle Of Dogs, Bridge Of Spies, The Tudors, and loads more. Annie talked to us about the classic and only mildly disturbing family comedy BIG. It was a really interesting conversation and also it's one of the very special times where Alan, Ellen, and Sarah are all in the same room so that was fun.  Thank you so much to Alan and Brian at HeadStuff for making this episode happen and to everybody at The Workman's who gave us the space and set us up and made sure we didn't set fire to anything. We donated all of our ticket sales for the night to Together For Yes and we're delighted to say that we raised €300 so thank you to everybody that bought a ticket.  Note: We are shamble people and away from the sa

Linda Kavanagh of Together For Yes joins Alan and guest co-host Karyn Moynihan of Double Love to talk about everybody's favourite lil 80s alien, E.T. the Extra Terrestrial. We talk about dissecting frogs, very good child actors, is E.T. a vegetarian, Mac and Me, Miss Vanjie, Paul Rudd, with a little diversion into the Fast and Furious films. We had fun, you'll have fun.  Follow us all on Twitter: Linda Kavanagh (@bubblenoma) Alan Maguire (@alan_maguire) Karyn Moynihan (@redlemonader) You can follow Juvenalia on twitter @Juvenalia_Pod or like Juvenalia on Facebook at JuvenaliaPodcast and also we’re @juvenaliapod on Instagram. We’re everywhere now. If you like Juvenalia and would like us to succeed in life then consider rating and/or reviewing us on your local podcast app. And tell your friends, that’s the best thing.  Juvenalia original artwork by Dee McDonnell This episode was produced and edited by Brian + Alan

Kate McEvoy, video producer, twitter citizen, and former voice of Phantom FM, joins Alan and Sarah to talk about Roald Dahl's Matilda, memory, Danny DeVito's film adaptation, Roald Dahl's real life, and digressions into lots of other Roald Dahl books.   Note: We had a couple of recording snafus in the second half of the episode which we had to edit out so there are a couple of abrupt changes of topic but hopefully it's not too noticeable.  You can follow Kate on Twitter @ImKateMc and you should. Sarah's twitter is @griffski and her book Spare And Found Parts is both out now and excellent. Alan's twitter is @alan_maguire. He mostly does Juvenalia but he does standup sometimes too.  We're doing a live show for our fiftieth episode on April 25th in the Vintage Room in the Workman's. Our guest is going to be the amazing graphic designer Annie Atkins. You should come.  You can follow Juvenalia on twitter @Juvenalia_Pod or like Juvenalia on Facebook at J

Esther O'Moore Donohoe, host of The 80% and warrior of the AA Roadwatch, joins Alan and Sarah to talk about Sex And The City. We talk about annoying main characters, the standard jobs that women have in TV shows, Girls, and the ~journey~ that the Sex And The City characters went on over six good seasons, one good movie, and one other movie.  You can follow Esther on twitter @estheromd . Esther's podcast The 80% is available in all the places where you get podcasts. Sarah's twitter is @griffski and her book Spare And Found Parts is both out now and excellent. Alan's twitter is @alan_maguire. He mostly does Juvenalia but he does standup sometimes too.  We're doing a live show for our fiftieth episode on April 25th in the Vintage Room in the Workman's. You should come.  You can follow Juvenalia on twitter @Juvenalia_Pod or like Juvenalia on Facebook at JuvenaliaPodcast and also we're @juvenaliapod on Instagram. We're everywhere now. If

Hey! The first episode of Juvenalia went out two years ago today so we wanted to mark the occasion with a little minisode just to say thank you and to tell you about our upcoming LIVE show. The live show may or may not be called Twovenalia. Ok have a nice day. Juvenalia original artwork by Dee McDonnell This episode was produced by Alan

Writer, podcaster, and the creator of everybody's favourite Tinyletter, Anne T. Donahue joins Alan and Ellen to talk about Star Wars and Star Wars-related things. Some of those things included: Anne's award-winning Star Wars essay, Hayden Christensen catfishers, fixing General Hux, Donald Glover, and a too-brief diversion into true crime. We had fun. We hope you like it.  You can follow Anne on twitter @annetdonahue . Anne's book and podcast are both called Nobody Cares. The podcast is excellent, if you like Juvenalia you'll definitely, definitely like Nobody Cares. The book is out in September and will be excellent for sure. Ellen's twitter is @incogellen and she writes for Silicon Republic. Alan's twitter is @alan_maguire. He mostly does Juvenalia but he does standup sometimes too. Alan and Ellen will both be doing standup in the Comedy Cellar in Dublin on March 27th. You should come. You can follow Juvenalia on twitter @Juvenalia_Pod or like Juvenalia on Fac

Stand-up comedian and Try Channel contributor Laura Byrne joins Alan and Ellen to talk about Lois And Clark: The New Adventures Of Superman. We talk about Dean Cain, Teri Hatcher, having the channels, getting incomplete sex education from television, being a three-year old, and Laura breaks out some of her childhood diaries to give us a first hand account of her Superman love.  You can follow Laura on twitter @lolsybyrne and buy her excellent live album End Of Daze on Bandcamp. Ellen's twitter is @incogellen and she writes for Silicon Republic. Alan's twitter is @alan_maguire. He mostly does Juvenalia but he does standup sometimes too. You can follow Juvenalia on twitter @Juvenalia_Pod or like Juvenalia on Facebook at JuvenaliaPodcast and also we're @juvenaliapod on Instagram. We're everywhere now. If you like Juvenalia and would like us to succeed in life then consider rating and/or reviewing us on your local podcast app. And tell your friends, that’s

Karyn Moynihan of Double Love joins Alan and Ellen to talk about the truly, truly, truly outrageous Jem And The Holograms. We talk music, outfits, makeup, The Misfits, gender, diversity, all of that good Juvenalia stuff. Enjoy  Ellen writes for Silicon Republic. Alan mostly does Juvenalia but he does standup sometimes too.  Follow us all on Twitter! Karyn Moynihan (@redlemonader) Ellen Tannam (@incogellen) Alan Maguire (@alanmaguire) Juvenalia (@JuvenaliaPod) Like Juvenalia on Facebook! We're @juvenaliapod on Instagram. We're everywhere now. If you like Juvenalia and would like us to succeed in life then consider rating and/or reviewing us on your local podcast app. And tell your friends, that’s the best thing.  Juvenalia original artwork by Dee McDonnell This episode was produced and edited by Brian + Alan

Actor and Comedian Tara Flynn joins Alan and special guest co-host Stacy Grouden to talk about ABBA! We talk about happy songs, sad songs, trying to sing along to ABBA, Tara's audition for Mamma Mia, Pierce Brosnan in Mamma Mia, and all sorts of things.  This episode is sponsored by Just Eat  Stacy Grouden is the film editor of State.ie and will be appearing soon on the new Scannáin podcast. Alan mostly does Juvenalia but he does standup sometimes too.  Relevant Twitter accounts for this episode: Tara Flynn (@TaraFlynn) Stacy Grouden (@SilverStGroud) Alan Maguire (@alan_maguire) Juvenalia (@Juvenalia_Pod)  If you like Juvenalia and would like us to succeed in life then consider rating and/or reviewing us on your local podcast app. And tell your friends, that’s the best thing.  Juvenalia original artwork by Dee McDonnell This episode was produced and edited by Brian + Alan

We had a scheduling mix-up so Alan and Ellen sat down and had a chat about the thing that they’d pick if they were a Juvenalia guest, The Simpsons. This is not a rigorous history of The Simpsons, we jump around a lot and probably get things wrong but this is OUR Simpsons so let us have it.  Happy New Year. We have zero solid plans for what’s happening with Juvenalia this year but we’re sure it’ll be very exciting and good.  This episode is sponsored by Just Eat  Ellen writes for Silicon Republic so go there and read her stuff. Juvenalia is Alan’s main thing but if you’re still feeling Christmassy then you could listen to his limited run made-for-TV Christmas movies podcast with Jeanne Sutton that has now ended, Roast Chestnuts.  Relevant Twitter accounts for this episode: Ellen Tannam (@incogellen) Alan Maguire (@alan_maguire) Juvenalia (@Juvenalia_Pod)  If you like Juvenalia and would like us to succeed in life then consider rating and/or reviewing us on your local podcast app. A

Hello and welcome to the Juvenalia Christmas Smalltacular 2017! We decided to take it back to basics this year. Just Alan, Ellen, and Sarah talking about some of their favourite Christmas memories and how their 2017 went. This somehow led to a solid ten minutes of chatting about how much we love the McElroys and The Adventure Zone but the rest is pretty Christmassy with talk of Mega Drives, N64s, selection boxes, carols, Carol, and lots of other stuff.  The singer who did the version of Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas that made Alan cry in college was Niall McCabe. Alan is sorry that he couldn’t remember Niall’s surname.  Follow Alan, Ellen, and Sarah on Twitter, we’re good and sound.  We want to say a huge thank you to everyone who listened, subscribed, or supported Juvenalia in any way this year. We love making this podcast and love that you’re out there listening. HAPPY CHRISTMAS! WE LOVE YOU ALL Juvenalia original artwork by Dee McDonnell This episode was produced by Brian and edit

Stephen Colfer of Dreamgun and the Dreamgun Film Reads podcast joins Alan and Ellen to talk about 2000’s The Legend Of Zelda: Majora’s Mask. We talk about the weird loneliness of Majora’s Mask, loft living, ludonarrative dissonance, watching your friends play computer games, official console magazines, Pokemon tournaments, and loads of other stuff.  Alan has another podcast on the HeadStuff Podcast Network running until Christmas. It’s called Roast Chestnuts. He reviews a made for TV Christmas film with Jeanne Sutton and a special guest every week. If you like Juvenalia, you’ll like Roast Chestnuts.  Relevant Twitter accounts for this episode: Stephen Colfer (@stephenpip) Ellen Tannam (@incogellen) Alan Maguire (@alan_maguire) Juvenalia (@Juvenalia_Pod)  If you like Juvenalia and would like us to succeed in life then consider rating and/or reviewing us on your local podcast app. And tell your friends, that’s the best thing.  Juvenalia original artwork by Dee McDonnell This episode was

Author Dave Rudden joins Alan and Sarah so that they can feel all the emotions about Terry Pratchett. This is a long one so make a pot of tea or plan a long drive somewhere. We focused mostly on the Discworld novels particularly Vimes and the witches. There’s lots of enthusing and lots of quoting from memory. Hopefully it’ll make you pick up a Discworld book or any Terry Pratchett book really. They’re pretty much all good. Enjoy.  Dave’s books Knights Of the Borrowed Dark and The Forever Court are out now. The Forever Court is nominated for Senior Children’s Book of the Year a the BGE Irish Book Awards. If you’re quick you can still vote for it here Sarah’s book Spare And Found Parts will be out in Ireland, the UK, and Australia in Feb 2018. Alan has another podcast running until Christmas. It’s called Roast Chestnuts. He reviews a made for TV Christmas movie with Jeanne Sutton and a special guest every week. If you like Juvenalia, you’ll like Roast Chestnuts.  Relevant Twitter accounts for this e

Comedian and podcaster Erin McGathy of This Feels Terrible, HarmonQuest and many other things joins Alan & Ellen to talk about Jim Henson’s 1986 cult classic Labyrinth. Erin has very deep feelings about Labyrinth and was kind enough to share loads of them with us particularly the ones about David Bowie. Ellen and Erin also formed a sacred and lasting bond over their water bottles. This Feels Terrible is on all the podcast apps and is Very Good. Relevant Twitter accounts for this episode: Erin McGathy (@ErinMcGathy) Ellen Tannam (@incogellen) Alan Maguire (@alan_maguire) Juvenalia (@Juvenalia_Pod) If you like Juvenalia and would like us to succeed in life then consider rating and/or reviewing us on your local podcast app. And tell your friends, that’s the best thing. Juvenalia original artwork by Dee McDonnell This episode was produced by Brian + Alan

Rebecca Keane is a standup comedian, writer, and excellent Twitter person. She joined us to talk about the colossus of 90s Saturday evening entertainment, Stars In Their Eyes. We covered all the important topics like the niceness of Matthew Kelly and the bleakness of the intro videos. We brainstormed who we’d be if we ever got the chance to be on it and we managed to shoehorn in an impressive number of Drag Race references. Hope you like it!  Relevant Twitter accounts for this episode: Rebecca Keane (@rbcakn) Ellen Tannam (@incogellen) Alan Maguire (@alan_maguire) Juvenalia (@Juvenalia_Pod) If you like Juvenalia and would like us to succeed in life then consider rating and/or reviewing us on your local podcast app. And tell your friends, that’s the best thing.  Juvenalia original artwork by Dee McDonnell This episode was produced by Brian

Well we did it. We did a live show at the Dublin Podcast Festival. We did a quiz that went on slightly longer than planned and then we talked to singer and actor Maria Doyle Kennedy of The Commitments, Orphan Black, The Tudors, Dexter, Father Ted, and loads more about The Wizard Of Oz with some detours along the way to talk about mermaids, ghosts, Billie Holiday, and Maria’s directorial debut A Different Kind Of Day, before we finished with a song from Maria and her husband Kieran (who is a lovely man) from Maria’s self-titled new album which is available now.  As you can hear from the episode we were delighted to meet Maria and do a live episode so thanks to everyone who came and thanks to HeadStuff and Aiken for organising a podcast festival and letting us be a part of it. Thank you also to everyone at The Workman’s Club who made it happen and to Sarah Garvey for looking after us.  Relevant Twitter accounts for this episode: Maria Doyle Kennedy (@mariadkennedy) Ellen Tannam (@incogellen)