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Juvenalia

Juvenalia

By Tall Tales

Juvenalia is a pop culture nostalgia show where Alan Maguire, Sarah Maria Griffin, and Andrea Cleary invite interesting people to tell them about something they were obsessed with when they were young; how they felt about it then and how they feel about it now. We've talked about books, films, tv shows, musicians, computer games; we're interested in it all! It's nice, you'll like it.
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29: The Little Mermaid with Deirdre Sullivan

JuvenaliaJul 06, 2017

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190: The Mask with Tim Platt

190: The Mask with Tim Platt

Comedian Tim Platt from Rude Tales Of Magic and Oh These Those Stars Of Space joins us to talk about the impact that Jim Carrey and The Mask had on him as a child. We talk about Carrey’s performance and Cameron Diaz and Milo The Dog and the special effects of course but also about figuring out your artistic vocation, The Mask as alcohol, Man On The Moon, and the editorial biases of Edge City’s newspapers. It’s a good time.

Tim is @TimothyPlatt. He stars in Rude Tales Of Magic and Oh These Those Stars Of Space. His debut comedy album Teeth Like Beak is coming very soon.

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 out April 2025. Her newsletter is at ⁠griffnotes.ghost.io⁠

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.

Mar 21, 202401:27:43
189: The OC with Jessa Hastings

189: The OC with Jessa Hastings

Welcome to The OC bitch! Jessa Hastings, author of the Magnolia Parks Universe books, joins us as we put on our collared t-shirts and huge belts to talk about The OC! We talk about how Adam Brody changed nerds forever, finding Marissa annoying, Sandy and Kirsten, the music, the clothes, and how The OC is directly responsible for the scripted reality explosion of the mid-noughties. It’s a good time.

Jessa is @jessa.hastings. The latest book in the Magnolia Parks Universe, Into The Dark, is out now.

Alan is @alan_maguire. Juvenalia is his main thing right now but he’s doing a bit of stand up here and there.

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.

Mar 06, 202401:10:60
188: Interview With The Vampire with Sophia Cadogan

188: Interview With The Vampire with Sophia Cadogan

Comedian Sophia Cadogan joins us to talk about 1994’s Interview With The Vampire. We talk about the hair, and the necks, and the blood. But also about Kirsten Dunst’s amazing performance. We try to figure out why the coffins are important. We admire Brad PItt’s character’s action-oriented problem-solving methods (setting fire to everything all of the time). We had a lot of fun. You will too probably?

You can find Sophia everywhere at @SophiaCadogan. Her new show Princess Melancholy is on 17+18 Feb in Smock Alley, Dublin.

Alan is @alan_maguire. Juvenalia is his main thing right now but he’s doing a bit of stand up here and there.

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.

Feb 15, 202401:12:43
187: Robin Williams with Alexandra Haddow

187: Robin Williams with Alexandra Haddow

Comedian Alexandra Haddow joins us as we try to talk about how much we love Robin Williams without crying

Alexandra is @MissAHaddow. She’s on tour right NOW. You can find all the info right here.

Alan is ⁠@alan_maguire⁠. He does a bit of standup but Juvenalia is his main thing right now.

Sarah is ⁠@griffski⁠. Her books are in all good bookshops. Her newsletter is at ⁠griffnotes.ghost.io⁠

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.

Feb 01, 202457:26
186: This Is Spinal Tap with Pat Finnerty

186: This Is Spinal Tap with Pat Finnerty

Welcome to our first proper episode of 2024. If you listened to our Weezer episode or our Patreon episodes then you know that Andrea and Alan are big fans of Pat Finnerty. Pat makes a fantastic youtube series called What Makes This Song Stink. We were delighted when he agreed to appear on the show and even more delighted when he picked Spinal Tap.

P.S. there’s a bit near the end where Pat says U2 but we misheard him and thought he said YouTube so if you’re wondering why we suddenly start talking about YouTube, that’s why.

Pat is @the_pat_finnerty_show on instagram. What Makes This Song Stink is on YouTube. Start from episode 1, thank us later.

Alan is @alan_maguire. Juvenalia is his main thing right now but he’s doing a bit of stand up here and there.

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 regular 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.

Jan 18, 202401:02:20
Twixmas 2023

Twixmas 2023

Happy Weird Inbetweeny Bit of the year where nothing’s really happening. We realised that people don’t get around to Christmas episodes of podcasts until January so we just talked about some non-Christmassy things we’d been watching lately. We also did our Off Menu menus just for the hell of it.

We’re going to take a break for a couple of weeks while we get everything lined up for 2024 but we’ll back soon. Thanks for sticking around.

Alan, Sarah, and Andrea.

Alan is @alan_maguire. Juvenalia is his main thing right now but he’s doing a bit of stand up here and there.

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 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 produced by Alan.

Juvenalia is a Tall Tales podcast. Thank you Cassie.

Jan 02, 202451:38
185: The Nightmare Before Christmas with Meagan Hyland

185: The Nightmare Before Christmas with Meagan Hyland

What’s this? What’s this? Meg Hyland’s back to talk to us about The Nightmare Before Christmas. We were going to rewrite all the lyrics to What’s This to be about the podcast but literally none of the words associated with this podcast scan with the meter of the song so instead just listen to the episode. It’s about creative burnout, and mall goths, and passing the wierd parts of yourself onto younger relatives.

Meagan is @meghyland. She’s extremely talented, follow her.

Alan is ⁠@alan_maguire⁠. He does a bit of standup but Juvenalia is his main thing right now.

Sarah is ⁠@griffski⁠. Her books are in all good bookshops. Her newsletter is at ⁠griffnotes.ghost.io⁠

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.

Dec 10, 202354:59
184: Mighty Morphin Power Rangers with Andy Gaffney

184: Mighty Morphin Power Rangers with Andy Gaffney

Award-winning podcaster Andy Gaffney returns to Juvenalia to stun us with the depth and breadth of his Power Rangers knowledge. We talk about b-sides of Power Rangers singles, the two Rita Repulsas, Power Rangers Live In The Point Depot Dublin, Jedward(?), and lots, lots more.

PS There’s a little bit of talk about Santa, so if you listen to Juvenalia around believers, it might be better to keep this one for later.

Andy is @BeGrandAndy. His current project is the podcast Promenade which is excellent and you should listen to it.

Alan is @alan_maguire. Juvenalia is his main thing right now but he’s doing a bit of stand up here and there.

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 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 produced by Alan.

Juvenalia is a Tall Tales podcast. Thank you Cassie.

Nov 21, 202301:05:45
183: Pride And Prejudice (1995) with Lauren Bravo

183: Pride And Prejudice (1995) with Lauren Bravo

Author and journalist Lauren Bravo joins us to discuss in a most genteel aspect the 1995 BBC adaptation of Pride and Prejudice. The Colin Firth one. Much like Mr. Darcy and the lake, we dive right in to talking about wet shirts and sideburns. But we eventually talk about other things too.

Lauren is @LaurenBravo everywhere. Her debut novel Preloved is out now.

Alan is ⁠@alan_maguire⁠. He does a bit of standup but Juvenalia is his main thing really.

Sarah is ⁠@griffski⁠. Her books are in all good bookshops. Her newsletter is at ⁠griffnotes.ghost.io⁠

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.


You can ignore this bit, we've just updated the shownotes to force some podcatchers to redownload the episode because of a technical difficulty

Nov 04, 202354:33
182: Ru Paul's Drag Race with Jenny Maguire

182: Ru Paul's Drag Race with Jenny Maguire

Jenny Maguire is one of the co-ordinators of Trans And Intersex Pride Dublin and she’s been obsessively watching Drag Race since she was eleven years old so it seemed only right that she came on Juvenalia to talk to us all about it. Alan is a former big fan who’s fallen off a bit and Andrea watched her first season of Drag Race for this episode. It was a good mix, we had a good time.

(we had some zoom issues so sorry if some of ther audio is a little wonky)

Jenny is @JennyMaguir. You can learn more about Trans And Intersex Pride Dublin here

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

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 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 produced by Alan.

Juvenalia is a Tall Tales podcast. Thank you Cassie.

Oct 15, 202301:04:15
Bonus: Started/Finished #22

Bonus: Started/Finished #22

Hello, everybody's scheduled got all messed up so we didn't get a chance to record a new episode this week. We thought you might like to check out our Patreon-only bonus series Started/Finished where we, guess what, talk about what we've started and finished lately. In this one from earlier this year, Alan and Sarah talk about Citizen Sleeper, Tunic, Piranesi, Pokerface, and Chris Ware. We hope you like it and we'll be back with a regular episode in two weeks.

Started/Finished is a looser recording environment than Juvenalia so you'll occasionally hear footsteps from pets and spouses during the ep but hopefully it's not too distracting.

Juvenalia artwork by Dee McDonnell

This episode was produced by Alan.

Juvenalia is a Tall Tales podcast. Thank you Cassie.

Sep 21, 202336:54
181: Landfill Indie with Marty Ryan

181: Landfill Indie with Marty Ryan

Marty Ryan of Limerick band Anna’s Anchor joins us as we dive into the sweaty indie night in 2006 to talk about landfill indie. All the greats are mentioned, The View, The Pigeon Detectives, The Wombats. We also try to figure out what makes a landfill indie band and take some time to mention the bands that get lumped into that genre that we still actually like quite a lot like The Futureheads and Maximo Park.

Marty is the frontman of Anna’s Anchor. Their new album The Merries is out now on Strange Brew.

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

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 heavily referenced a Spotify playlist by Matthew Durrant for this episode. This is it here:

https://open.spotify.com/

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 produced by Alan.

Juvenalia is a Tall Tales podcast. Thank you Cassie.

Sep 08, 202301:18:36
180: Death Cab For Cutie's Plans with Miranda Reinert

180: Death Cab For Cutie's Plans with Miranda Reinert

Writer and podcaster Miranda Reinert joins us to talk about Death Cab For Cutie’s 2005 album Plans. We talk about how it fits into the Death Cab discography, Steely Dan Dads, re-engaging with your teenage earnestness, The Postal Service, Seth Cohen, and more.

Miranda is @mirandareinert. She co-hosts the podcast Endless Scroll and her newsletter Step One Of A Plan is at mirandareinert.com

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

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 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 produced by Alan.

Juvenalia is a Tall Tales podcast. Thank you Cassie.

Aug 26, 202350:33
179: The Princess Bride with Aoife Barry

179: The Princess Bride with Aoife Barry

Writer and broadcaster Aoife Barry returns to the podcast and she’s brought one of the big topics, one we assumed would have come up at some point in the previous 178 episodes but it’s here now and that’s the important thing. It’s Rob Reiner’s The Princess Bride! We enthuse wildly about the film before jumping into a discussion about the types of films Hollywood is willing to make now. It’s a great hour.

Aoife is @SweetOblivion26. Aoife’s book Social Capital, which is excellent, is out now.

Alan is ⁠@alan_maguire⁠. He does a bit of standup but Juvenalia is his main thing right now.

Sarah is ⁠@griffski⁠. Her books are in all good bookshops. Her newsletter is at ⁠griffnotes.ghost.io⁠

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.

Aug 10, 202358:51
178: Show And Tell

178: Show And Tell

We thought it might be nice if we got all three of us on the same episode for once to tell each other about something we thought the others might not know about. Sarah told us about the Tower Of The Sun in Osaka. Alan told us about Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter’s Long Earth series, and Andrea told us about Ryan Gosling’s 2009 folk-horror-doo wop album Dead Man’s Bones. We hope you like it.

This is the thing Sarah’s talking about here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tower_of_the_Sun

Alan is ⁠@alan_maguire⁠. He does a bit of standup but Juvenalia is his main thing right now.

Sarah is ⁠@griffski⁠. Her books are in all good bookshops. Her newsletter is at ⁠griffnotes.ghost.io⁠

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 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.

Jul 27, 202343:01
177: Hot Fuzz with Peter McGann

177: Hot Fuzz with Peter McGann

Comedian Peter McGann returns to Juvenalia and he’s brought us one of our favourite films, Hot Fuzz! How thoughtful of him. We talk about scripted vs improv comedy, Edgar Wright’s style and his imitators, the wonder of Nick Frost, and lots more. We had fun, we hope you like it.

Peter is @peterjmcgann. He’s on tour in September with his show Great Lad. You should go see it. Tickets are here

Alan is ⁠@alan_maguire⁠. He does a bit of standup but Juvenalia is his main thing right now.

Sarah is ⁠@griffski⁠. Her books are in all good bookshops. Her newsletter is at ⁠griffnotes.ghost.io⁠

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.

Jul 13, 202359:16
176: Weezer with Allegra Frank

176: Weezer with Allegra Frank

The Daily Beast’s Allegra Frank joins us for a wide-ranging discussion about Weezer! Allegra is a longtime superfan of all Weezer, Alan and Andrea are longtime superfans of early Weezer so it was a good chance to explore the bits of Weezer that we maybe haven’t given a fair shake over the years. It really was a joy to get a chance to have a big long talk about Weezer.

Allegra is @LegsFrank. You can find her work at The Daily Beast.

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

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 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 produced by Alan.

Juvenalia is a Tall Tales podcast. Thank you Cassie.

Jun 29, 202301:16:14
175: The Silence Of The Lambs with Elaine Feeney

175: The Silence Of The Lambs with Elaine Feeney

Author Elaine Feeney joins Alan and Sarah to talk about Jonathan Demme’s 1991 Oscar-sweeping, pop cultural juggernaut, The Silence Of The Lambs. We talk about the complicated and controversial legacy of Buffalo Bill, looking Clarice in the eyes, our favourite shots, the magic of Jodie Foster and Anthony Hopkins, and Elaine tells us about showing scary films to her kids. It’s a good one.

Elaine is @ElaineFeeney16. Her latest novel How To Build A Boat is out now.

Alan is ⁠@alan_maguire⁠. He does a bit of standup but Juvenalia is his main thing right now.

Sarah is ⁠@griffski⁠. Her books are in all good bookshops. Her newsletter is at ⁠griffnotes.ghost.io⁠

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.

Jun 15, 202301:18:23
174: Chicken Run with Ally Ryan

174: Chicken Run with Ally Ryan

Comedian Ally Ryan joins us to talk about Aardman Animation’s first feature film, Chicken Run (2000). We talk about feminism, communes, revolution, loads of stuff. We surprised ourselves at how much we took from it really. It was a good time.

Ally is @UpYourAllyRyan. You can find all her upcoming gigs there.

Alan is ⁠@alan_maguire⁠. He does a bit of standup but Juvenalia is his main thing right now.

Sarah is ⁠@griffski⁠. Her books are in all good bookshops. Her newsletter is at ⁠griffnotes.ghost.io⁠

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 Cassie Delaney

Juvenalia is a Tall Tales podcast. Thank you Cassie.

Jun 01, 202301:11:55
173: Britpop with Michael Orange aka Feather Beds

173: Britpop with Michael Orange aka Feather Beds

PARKLIFE, SunshEEEine, and so forth. We’re talking about the cultural juggernaut (for approximately five years) that was Britpop with Michael Orange aka Feather Beds. We talk about Blur v Oasis, Ocean Colour Scene deep cuts, and try to figure out if The Bends was Britpop. Along the way we take diversions into No Disco, 120 Minutes, and City Pop.

Michael is @Feather_Beds. His new album Softer Measures is out May 26th.

Alan is ⁠@alan_maguire⁠. He does a bit of standup but Juvenalia is his main thing right now.

Sarah is ⁠@griffski⁠. Her books are in all good bookshops. Her newsletter is at ⁠griffnotes.ghost.io⁠

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

Juvenalia is a Tall Tales podcast. Thank you Cassie.

May 18, 202353:00
172: Avatar: The Last Airbender with Amy Clarkin

172: Avatar: The Last Airbender with Amy Clarkin

Yip Yip! We’re talking about Avatar: The Last Airbender with author Amy Clarkin. Avatar is so good! Alan and Sarah had not watched Avatar before this but now they would die for Aang and the gang. Did we talk about the one specific thing that you think is important about Avatar? Maybe! We talked about a lot of things so hopefully your thing is one of them.

Amy is @amyclarkinwrites. Her debut novel What Walks These Halls is out RIGHT NOW

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

Sarah is @griffski. Her books are in all good bookshops. Her newsletter is at griffnotes.ghost.io

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 Cassie Delaney

Juvenalia is a Tall Tales podcast. Thank you Cassie.

Apr 13, 202301:05:46
171: Bloc Party's Silent Alarm with Carly Monardo

171: Bloc Party's Silent Alarm with Carly Monardo

Artist and podcaster Carly Monardo returns to us for the third time and this time we’ve got a doozy. We’re talking about Bloc Party’s debut album Silent Alarm (2005). We talked a lot about being twenty. It’s very much about being twenty and working in Urban Outfitters, and discovering things for yourself. We also took a slight detour to deliver a pep talk about following your dreams and making that thing. This is a good one, you’ll like it.

Carly is @whirringblender. She stars in Rude Tales Of Magic and Oh These, Those Stars Of Space which are both extremely worth your time.

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

Sarah is @griffski. Her books are in all good bookshops. Her newsletter is at griffnotes.ghost.io

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.

Juvenalia is a Tall Tales podcast. Thank you Cassie.

Mar 30, 202301:21:58
Bonus Birthday Episode: Started/Finished 15

Bonus Birthday Episode: Started/Finished 15

We're seven years old today! To celebrate, we decided to put one of our Patreon-only episodes up for everybody.

On our bonus series Started/Finished, we talk about what we've started and finished lately. On this one from Jul 2022, Alan and Andrea talk about Stranger Things, Elena Ferrante, Disney Cruise Youtube Walkthroughs, and the Portal games. One of these things turned into an extended discussion about Weezer and Pat Finnerty. You'll never guess which one.

Started/Finished is usually only available to our Slammer level patrons. There are currently 22 episodes of Started/Finished along with other bonus episodes, zines, and outtakes at patreon.com/juvenalia

Thank you so much to everybody who's ever listened to an episode or shared the show.

Thanks to Dee McDonnell for our artwork which still slaps.

Thank you to Cassie Delaney for having us on Tall Tales.

Mar 23, 202301:05:53
170: Coraline with Tara Anand

170: Coraline with Tara Anand

Painter and Illustrator Tara Anand joins us to talk about Henry Selick and Neil Gaiman’s Coraline which you should go watch immediately if you haven’t because it’s stunning. We talk about the similarities in Irish and Indian ghosts, making small things, mothers, and lots more. This is a good one.

You can see Tara’s incredible work at @taraanandart. The Tiger's Tale, illustrated by Tara and written by Catherine Barr is out April 13th 2023. 

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

Sarah is @griffski. Her books are in all good bookshops. Her newsletter is at griffnotes.ghost.io

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.

Juvenalia is a Tall Tales podcast. Thank you Cassie.

Mar 16, 202351:47
169: Star Wars with Becky Cheatle
Mar 02, 202301:16:17
168: The N64 (especially Goldeneye) with Dashoda

168: The N64 (especially Goldeneye) with Dashoda

Musician Gavin McDermott aka Dashoda joins Alan and Sarah for a big talk about the console that gave us Ocarina Of Time, Mario 64, and Goldeneye, amongst other classics, Nintendo’s N64. We talked about all of them but we found ourselves coming back again and again to Goldeneye. Alan was a Sega child so this was an educational week for him. Sarah is, of course, 1/4 Nintendo so had lots to talk about with Gavin.

Dashoda is @DashodaMusic. Dashoda will release his debut EP Never Enough on Wednesday 15th March 2023. He will play the Workman's Cellar, Dublin the same night. Tickets on sale now.

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

Sarah is @griffski. Her books are in all good bookshops. Her newsletter is at griffnotes.ghost.io

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 produced by Alan.

Juvenalia is a Tall Tales podcast. Thank you Cassie.

Feb 17, 202357:22
167: Lord Of The Rings with Jonathan Victory

167: Lord Of The Rings with Jonathan Victory

Comedian and filmmaker Jonathan Victory joins us to talk about Peter Jackson’s Lord Of The Rings trilogy. We cover as much of it as possible: Gollum, Eowyn, Aragorn opening those big doors in The Two Towers, and also Jonathan’s documentary about his trip to the filming locations in New Zealand, A Far Green Country. (international link)

Jonathan is @VictoryContent. His Scene + Heard show Elementaller is in Smock Alley on Feb 11th + 12th. Tickets

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

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 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 produced by Cassie Delaney.

Juvenalia is a Tall Tales podcast. Thank you Cassie.

Feb 02, 202356:30
The Juvenalia Christmas Latetacular 2022
Jan 04, 202301:16:55
166: Winter Recs 2022 with Alan and Sarah

166: Winter Recs 2022 with Alan and Sarah

It’s the winter time do we’ve got some more recommendations for you. Not, I repeat, not Christmas recommendations. You have to follow your own bliss at Christmas. No, instead Alan and Sarah are here to talk about things that feel wintery-but-not-Christmassy to them. Things like Windwaker, Sigur Ros’s (), Mulled Wine and Nigella’s Roast Chicken, Twin Peaks, and Mount Eerie. Extremely un-festive we’re sure you’ll agree.

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 produced by Alan.

Juvenalia is a Tall Tales podcast. Thank you Cassie.

Dec 08, 202247:45
165: Breaking The Magician's Code with Roger O'Sullivan

165: Breaking The Magician's Code with Roger O'Sullivan

Podcaster and comedian Roger O’Sullivan joins us for an absolute trip back into 90s early evening weekend telly as we revisit Breaking The Magician’s Code: Magic’s Biggest Secrets Finally Revealed or as everybody actually called it The Masked Magician. We had a blast.

Roger is @RogerOSullivan. His co-hosts Unexplained Legends, it’s very good.

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

Andrea @AndreaCleary_. Her other podcasts are My Favourite Album With Andrea Cleary and The Nialler9 Podcast.

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 produced by Alan.

Juvenalia is a Tall Tales podcast. Thank you Cassie.

Nov 24, 202201:05:23
164: Theatre Kids with Rachael Krishna

164: Theatre Kids with Rachael Krishna

Rachael Krishna is back! We had such a great time talking to her about Joseph And The Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat last year that we knew we had to bring her back so we could all talk about all of our juvenile theatre experiences. Between us we covered most of 20th century musicals history, from How To Succeed In Business to Grease to adaptations of Animal Farm written by a drama teacher.

Rachael is @RachaelKrishna.

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 produced by Alan.

Juvenalia is a Tall Tales podcast. Thank you Cassie.

Nov 10, 202201:00:54
163: BOOvenalia - Practical Magic with Lydia Ging and Cassie Delaney

163: BOOvenalia - Practical Magic with Lydia Ging and Cassie Delaney

It's the final episode of BOOvenalia and it's the best one! Producer Cassie and girlfriend Lydia join us to chat about the most wonderful autumnal magical art that is Practical Magic

Starring Nicole Kidman and Sandra Bullock,  Practical Magic chronicles the lives of witchy sisters Sally and Gillian Owens. Raised by their aunts after their parents' death from a family curse, the sisters were taught the uses of practical magic as they grew up. As adults, Sally and Gillian must use their magic to destroy an evil spirit before it kills them.

Lydia can be found @D8Design.co and Cassie is @CassieLorraine

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

This episode was produced by Cassie and Alan.

Juvenalia is a Tall Tales podcast. Thank you Cassie.

Nov 01, 202201:07:09
162: BOOvenalia - The Texas Chain Saw Massacre with Sophie White

162: BOOvenalia - The Texas Chain Saw Massacre with Sophie White

Things are really getting spooky now as Sophie White joins us to talk about one of the most influential horror films of all time, Tobe Hooper’s The Texas Chain Saw Massacre. Alan and Sophie both saw TTCSM at way too young an age so we have a good chat about that and lots of other stuff.

If you’ve seen it before then you know that we’re going to be talking about some heavy stuff. If you haven’t then consider this a Content Warning for violence against women for this episode.

Sophie is @sophwhitewoop on instagram. She has written many books, the latest one Where I End is out right now. She also co-hosts two of your favourite podcasts, Mother Of Pod and The Creep Dive

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

This episode was produced by Cassie and Alan.

Juvenalia is a Tall Tales podcast. Thank you Cassie.

Oct 20, 202257:42
161: BOOvenalia - Donnie Darko with Meagan Hyland

161: BOOvenalia - Donnie Darko with Meagan Hyland

t’s mid-October and we’re entering the prime of spooky season so let’s talk about 2001’s Donnie Darko with illustrator Meagan Hyland. If you listen to Juvenalia you probably had a Donnie Darko phase so enjoy! We talk about the vibes, the direction, the depths of our obsession with the film and we take a spirited stab at developing a holistic theory of the ending. It was a joy.

Meagan is @meaganhyland. You can see her amazing work including her Sparkle Motion print at meaganhyland.com

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're also releasing zines to tie in with each episode of our BOOvenalia season. It's patreon.com/juvenalia

This episode was produced by Cassie and Alan.

Juvenalia is a Tall Tales podcast. Thank you Cassie.

Oct 13, 202256:28
160: BOOvenalia - Hocus Pocus with Andrea Cleary

160: BOOvenalia - Hocus Pocus with Andrea Cleary

WooooOOOOOoooooo, it’s the spooky season so we’re going weekly for all of October and we’ll be covering a different Halloween-related film every week. This week, Alan and Andrea are talking about the 1993 cult classic Hocus Pocus! It’s very fun.

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

Andrea @AndreaCleary_. Her podcasts are My Favourite Album With Andrea Cleary and The Nialler9 Podcast.

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 produced by Alan.

Juvenalia is a Tall Tales podcast. Thank you Cassie.

Oct 06, 202251:19
159: Autumn Recommendations with Alan and Sarah

159: Autumn Recommendations with Alan and Sarah

It’s the pre-spooky season and we’ve picked some games, music, tv, and food that pairs perfectly with the interesting leaf season. This is a little bit of a different one for us but we hope you like it!

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

Sarah is @griffski. Her books are in all good bookshops.Thank you to Dee McDonnell for our artwork.

We have a Patreon! You can get bonus episodes including our fortnightly show Started/Finished where we talk about the pop culture we 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 produced by Alan.

Juvenalia is a Tall Tales podcast. Thank you Cassie.

Sep 24, 202246:43
158: Yu-Gi-Oh with Felix O'Connor

158: Yu-Gi-Oh with Felix O'Connor

Standup comedian Felix O’Connor joins us to talk about the manga/anime/card game behemoth Yu-Gi-Oh! We had a great time diving into what makes Yu-Gi-Oh! different from the other Japanese cartoons that broke through to Western audiences in the late 90s/early 2000s and some of the idiosyncrasies of localisation in Yu-Gi-Oh!

Felix is @FelixirOfLife28. He hosts the podcast Not Trans Trans Movies and the monthly comedy night Token Straight which is part of the Hysteria Collective

Alan is @alan_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 produced by Fearghal and Alan.

Juvenalia is a Tall Tales podcast. Thank you Cassie.

Sep 08, 202201:13:08
157: Chris Cornell with Carlo Magliocco

157: Chris Cornell with Carlo Magliocco

Singer-songwriter Carlo Magliocco joins Alan and Andrea to talk about Soundgarden and Audioslave frontman Chris Cornell. We talk about how Cornell was always more then the stereotypical rock frontman that a casual look at his work might lead you to believe, the thought and intentionality of his solo shows, and Carlo tells us about the time he got to meet the man himself.

Carlo is @Carlo_Magliocco. His album Calendar is on Spotify.

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

Andrea is not on social media right now because she’s stronger than us but you can find her on her podcasts My Favourite Album With Andrea Cleary and The Nialler9 Podcast.

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 produced by Fearghal and Alan.

Juvenalia is a Tall Tales podcast. Thank you Cassie.

Aug 25, 202259:10
156: Adrian Mole with Emer McLysaght

156: Adrian Mole with Emer McLysaght

Emer McLysaght, one half of the Oh My God What A Complete Aisling books and our fifth ever guest returns to talk to us about the Adrian Mole series. Emer was obsessed with all of the Adrian Mole books as a youngster, Alan read and loved the first one as a child but then got distracted by Terry Pratchett and never returned, and Andrea read The Secret Diary Of for the first time for this episode so we’re really covering what we in the Juvenalia business call  “The Experience Gamut”

Emer is @EmerTheScreamer. She co-writes the hugely popular Aisling books with Sarah Breen, you’ve probably read them but if you haven’t you should; especially if you loved Adrian Mole.

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

Andrea is not on social media right now because she’s stronger than us but you can find her on her podcasts My Favourite Album With Andrea Cleary and The Nialler9 Podcast.

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 produced by Fearghal and Alan.

Juvenalia is a Tall Tales podcast. Thank you Cassie.

Aug 11, 202201:05:58
155: Pretty In Pink with Charlene Lydon - Live at the Lighthouse Cinema, Dublin

155: Pretty In Pink with Charlene Lydon - Live at the Lighthouse Cinema, Dublin

The Lighthouse Cinema very kindly asked us to do a live episode as part of their Not Another Teen Season and we said absolutely yes of course we will.

Alan and Andrea talked to the programmer at the Lighthouse, Charlene Lydon, about Pretty In Pink and we got into it. We had a long, enjoyable chat about every aspect of the film: the music, the dress, Harry Dean Stanton, Annie Potts, all the important stuff. There was one Team Duckie person in the audience, one Team Steff, and everybody else was Team Blane so it was a diverse crowd.

Thank you to our very incisive audience members who provided comments and questions at the end and thank you to everybody who came. Thanks again to the Lighthouse for inviting us.

The clips from the movie we played were as follows:

1: An intro to the boys. Duckie and Andie in the hall. Steff and Andie at her car. Blane walking into the record store.

2: Blane buying the record from Andie.

3: Montage of Andie making the dress.

4: Andie confronts Blane at his locker.

Charlene is @charlenelydon. She hosts Cinema Book Club at the Lighthouse Cinema in Dublin.

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

Andrea is not on social media right now because she’s stronger than us but you can find her on her podcasts My Favourite Album With Andrea Cleary and The Nialler9 Podcast.

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

Thanks to Marius at the Lighthouse for running the clips and the recorder for us on the night.

This episode was produced by Alan.

Juvenalia is a Tall Tales podcast. Thank you Cassie.

Jul 28, 202201:06:06
154: That's So Raven with Ashley Manning

154: That's So Raven with Ashley Manning

Comedian, Podcaster, and Twitch streamer Ashley Manning joins us to talk about one of the biggest Disney Channel shows of all time, That’s So Raven. We talk about Raven-Symoné’s amazing physical comedy, Anneliese van der Pol’s amazing voice, the Undercover Superstar episode which indirectly led to High School Musical, the show’s willingness to tackle big issues like body image and race head-on in a way other early noughties shows didn’t, and lots more.

Ashley is @AManComedian. She co-hosts The UTS Show, a chat show and podcast recorded live on Twitch.

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

Andrea is not on social media right now because she’s stronger than us but you can find her on her podcasts My Favourite Album With Andrea Cleary and The Nialler9 Podcast.

We’re doing a live show on July 20th in the Lighthouse Cinema as part of their Not Another Teen Season. We’ll be talking about Pretty In Pink with Lighthouse programmer Charlene Lydon. Tickets are available here.

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 produced by Alan.

Juvenalia is a Tall Tales podcast. Thank you Cassie.

Jul 14, 202257:21
153: Jacqueline Wilson with Kirsty Capes

153: Jacqueline Wilson with Kirsty Capes

Women’s Prize longlisted author Kirsty Capes joins us to talk about the books of Jacqueline Wilson. We focused on three in particular, The Story Of Tracy Beaker, The Illustrated Mum, and Lola Rose but the conversation took in a lot more than that. We talked about Jacqueline Wilson’s fearlessness, how the topics in her books intersected with Kirsty’s life, and about Kirsty’s PhD which was about depictions of care homes in fiction. It was a fascinating chat.

Kirsty is @kirstycapes. Her latest novel Love Me, Love Me Not is out July 2022.

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 recorded by Cassie, produced and edited by Fearghal and Alan.

Juvenalia is a Tall Tales podcast. Thank you Cassie.

Jul 01, 202253:45
152: Scream with Conor Behan

152: Scream with Conor Behan

DJ and host of Housewives And Me Conor Behan returns to Juvenalia to talk about Scream. We talked about Scream way back in episode 8 but we’ve had a whole Scream Requel since then and we’re all different people now so we thought it was worth a revisit. We talked about brand activations, lens flare, press junket misdirects, the requel, and lots more.

This episode came out before it was revealed that Neve Campbell would not be returning for Scream 6. Hopefully some day soon Neve Campbell will be paid what she deserves and we can come back and delete this paragraph from the shownotes.

Conor is @ItsConorBehan. Housewives And Me is on all the podcast apps.

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 recorded by Cassie, produced and edited by Fearghal and Alan.

Juvenalia is a Tall Tales podcast. Thank you Cassie.

Jun 16, 202257:37
151: Josie and the Pussycats with Aoife O'connor

151: Josie and the Pussycats with Aoife O'connor

Comedian Aoife O’Connor joins us to talk about 2001’s cult classic consumerism satire/teen drama/fake rock biopic Josie and the Pussycats. We talked about the fashion, the Parker Posey, the Alan Cumming, the absolute bangers that make up the Pussycats’s music, a very serious Josie-inspired crime Aoife committed, and lots more. Aoife has been obsessed with this film since they were ten years old so it was a joy to step inside their Josie-brain.

Aoife is @aoifebella. You should go see them do comedy somewhere, they’re very good.

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 recorded by Cassie, produced and edited by Fearghal and Alan.

Juvenalia is a Tall Tales podcast. Thank you Cassie.

Jun 02, 202245:55
150: My Chemical Romance with Eve Belle

150: My Chemical Romance with Eve Belle

Singer of sad bops Eve Belle joins us to talk about her intense teenage feelings about My Chemical Romance, being a Donegal emo, misogyny in music, Gerard Way as a gender role model, and her own approach to the aesthetic side of being a musician. Also, Alan makes a startling confession.

Eve is @EveBelleSongs. Her brilliant album In Between Moments is out NOW.

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

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

Thank you to Dee 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.

May 18, 202201:01:49
149: The Dark Crystal with Josh Winning

149: The Dark Crystal with Josh Winning

Author Josh Winning joins us to talk about Jim Henson and Frank Oz’s most challenging creation, The Dark Crystal. Josh’s novel The Shadow Glass has been described as a love letter to Labyrinth and The Dark Crystal so we had a lot to talk about such as The Dark Crystal ‘s let-the-audience-figure-it-out approach to worldbuilding, the depth of that worldbuilding once you get a handle on it, the moments of humour in an otherwise pretty serious film, Jim Henson’s reading habits, the groundbreaking puppeteering, as well as some general thoughts on the Muppets and why The Henson Company seems to have avoided anything on the scale of The Dark Crystal in recent decades. It was a fascinating conversation.

Note: Thanks to some Zoom weirdness, we had to use a single-track backup of this episode which means that Alan’s plan to remove some interruptions from his dog in post couldn’t happen. So apologies for any sub-par audio and dog noises.

Josh is @JoshWinning. His novel The Shadow Glass is out now from Titan Books.

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.

May 05, 202201:17:07
148: Kid A with Louise Gaffney of Dirty Dreamer

148: Kid A with Louise Gaffney of Dirty Dreamer

Louise Gaffney of Irish new-wave ambient band Dirty Dreamer joined us to talk about what many people regard as the greatest album of the noughties, Radiohead’s Kid A. We talk about how Kid A sounded in 2000, how it sounds, how it influenced Dirty Dreamer, and we talked about making music that sounds like it’s happening in a specific location.

You can find Dirty Dreamer @dirty_dreamer_. Their debut album The Everyday in Bloom is out now. They play the Workman’s Cellar on June 2nd.

Alan is @alan_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.

Apr 21, 202256:31
147: The Strokes with Bláithín De Burca - Live at the Foolhardy Festival
Apr 08, 202252:38
146: Green Wing with Carly Monardo

146: Green Wing with Carly Monardo

Carly Monardo of Rude Tales of Magic and Birdgirl returns to talk about a show that had a huge influence on her, 2004's Green Wing. We picked sides in the love triangle at the heart of the show, talked about improv, the scary amount of now-famous people in the show, the physical commitment of the actors, and about the balance of meanness and earnestness in comedy. It was fun!

Carly is @whirringblender. You can find Rude Tales of Magic and Oh These, Those Stars Of Space in the podcast places and season 2 of Birdgirl will be available SOON.

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.

Mar 24, 202201:13:36
145: The Fifth Element with Phil Ellis

145: The Fifth Element with Phil Ellis

Journalist and author Phil Ellis joins us as we return to the topic of very first episode: Luc Besson’s 1997 day-glo sci-fi epic The Fifth Element. It’s been six years this month since we last talked about it and we’re all different people so we thought why not. We talk about Ruby Rhod, the power of love, very long prologues, and the clothes, the clothes, the clothes.

Phil is @Philip_Ellis. He’s a contributing editor at Men’s Health magazine and has exciting news coming soon!

Alan is @alan_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.

Mar 03, 202259:41