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Juvenalia

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Everybody has that one thing they were obsessed with when they were young. Juvenalia is an Irish podcast where interesting people talk to Alan Maguire, Andrea Cleary, and Sarah Maria Griffin about the bit of pop culture that they were obsessed with when they were young, how they felt about it then and how they feel about it now. It's nice, you'll like it.

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S1 · E215
Jul 31, 2025 · 1 hr 11 min
The Juvenalia Book Club: The Amber Spyglass
More like The Amber Cry-Glass amirite? Alan and Andrea are back to talk about the final book in Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials trilogy, The Amber Spyglass (2000). We’re talking about the Mufela, the change in Mrs Coulter, the inscrutability of Lord Asriel, and of course, Lyra, Pantalaimon, Will, and Mary Malone. We’re doing a live show at All Together Now on Aug 3rd at 15:45 at the Theater Of Food with Ali Dunworth, drop in if you’re around! Alan is @alan_maguire. Juvenalia is his main thing right now but he does a bit of standup sometimes too. Andrea @AndreaCleary_. Her other podcasts are My Favourite Album With Andrea Cleary and The Nialler9 Podcast. Her newsletter is at https://andrea-cleary.ghost.io/ Thank you to Dee McDonnell for our artwork. We have a Patreon! You can get bonus episodes including our patreon-only show Started/Finished where we talk about the pop culture we started and finished recently. We also have some free lil bits of merch. It's patreon.com/juvenalia This episode was produced by Alan. Juvenalia is a Tall Tales podcast. Thank you Cassie.
S1 · E214
Jul 10, 2025 · 1 hr 7 min
214: Hairspray (1988) with Anna Carey
Author and podcaster Anna Carey returns to the show to talk to Alan and Sarah about John Waters’s punk camp classic Hairspray. We talka about camp, the lived-in-ness of the sets of Hairspray, the genius of Divine, the aesthetics of low-budget filmmaking, and so much more. Anna is @urchinette. Her new novel Our Song is out now and she co-hosts the very popular Double Love podcast. Alan is ⁠@alan_maguire⁠. He does a bit of standup but Juvenalia is his main thing right now. Sarah is ⁠@griffski⁠. Her new novel Eat The Ones You Love is also out right now. Thank you to Dee McDonnell for our artwork. We have a Patreon! You can get bonus episodes including our fortnightly show Started/Finished where we talk about the pop culture we’ve started and finished recently. We also have some free lil bits of merch. It's ⁠patreon.com/juvenalia This episode was produced by Alan Maguire Juvenalia is a Tall Tales podcast. Thank you Cassie.
S1 · E213
Jun 26, 2025 · 54 min
The Juvenalia Book Club: His Dark Materials - The Subtle Knife
The Juvenalia Book Club is back! We’re talking about book 2 of Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials series, The Subtle Knife. We talk about our love for new characters Will and Mary, the nature of dark matter in the His Dark Materials universe, whose dark material is it anyway?, trusting that a book will give you the answers you’re looking for if you just keep reading. Also, Andrea probes Alan’s understanding of what he’s reading and Alan tries his best to answer her. Alan is @alan_maguire. Juvenalia is his main thing right now but he does a bit of standup sometimes too. Andrea @AndreaCleary_. Her other podcasts are My Favourite Album With Andrea Cleary and The Nialler9 Podcast. Her newsletter is at https://andrea-cleary.ghost.io/ Thank you to Dee McDonnell for our artwork. We have a Patreon! You can get bonus episodes including our patreon-only show Started/Finished where we talk about the pop culture we started and finished recently. We also have some free lil bits of merch. It's patreon.com/juvenalia This episode was produced by Alan. Juvenalia is a Tall Tales podcast. Thank you Cassie.
S1 · E212
Jun 5, 2025 · 1 hr 9 min
212: Beaches with Vicki Notaro
Author and Journalist Vicki Notaro joins us to talk about the queen of melodramas, the wind beneath our wings, Garry Marshall’s Beaches (1988). There’s a lot to get through, the performances, shitty New York Apartments, Nouveau Riche New York Apartments, Celeb/Normie friendships: can they ever work? Boradway auditions, and lots more. It’s a good time. Vicki Notaro is @VickiNotaro. Her new novel Long Story is out right now. Alan is ⁠@alan_maguire⁠. He does a bit of standup but Juvenalia is his main thing right now. Sarah is ⁠@griffski⁠. Her new novel Eat The Ones You Love is also out right now. Thank you to Dee McDonnell for our artwork. We have a Patreon! You can get bonus episodes including our fortnightly show Started/Finished where we talk about the pop culture we’ve started and finished recently. We also have some free lil bits of merch. It's ⁠patreon.com/juvenalia This episode was produced by Alan Maguire Juvenalia is a Tall Tales podcast. Thank you Cassie.
S1 · E211
May 22, 2025 · 40 min
211: Rory Gallagher - Irish Tour ‘74 with Ramper
Donegal folk artist Ramper is with us to talk about the impact that Rory Gallagher’s live album Irish Tour ‘74 had on him as a young fella. We also talk about how our taste in guitar gods has changed as we’ve gotten older and just about the whole idea of guitar gods in general. Ramper’s debut album Loner is out now. He’s on tour this month. You can catch him on 25th May in Belfast, followed by Galway (28th May), Dublin (29th May) and Donegal (31 May). Alan is @alan_maguire. Juvenalia is his main thing right now but he does a bit of standup sometimes too. Andrea @AndreaCleary_. Her other podcasts are My Favourite Album With Andrea Cleary and The Nialler9 Podcast. Her newsletter is at https://andrea-cleary.ghost.io/ Thank you to Dee McDonnell for our artwork. We have a Patreon! You can get bonus episodes including our patreon-only show Started/Finished where we talk about the pop culture we started and finished recently. We also have some free lil bits of merch. It's patreon.com/juvenalia This episode was produced by Alan. Juvenalia is a Tall Tales podcast. Thank you Cassie.
S1 · E210
May 7, 2025 · 1 hr 6 min
The Juvenalia Book Club: His Dark Materials - Northern Lights
Welcome to the first meeting of the Juvenalia Book Club. We’re going to be taking turns introducing each other to book series that we love. For our first run Andrea will be introducing Alan to the His Dark Materials books by Philip Pullman. We’re going to be talking about Pullman’s amazing worldbuilding, taking children’s problems seriously, the biggest boy Iorek Byrnison, and lots more. Join us and tell us what you love (or don’t love) about these books Alan is @alan_maguire. Juvenalia is his main thing right now but he does a bit of standup sometimes too. Andrea @AndreaCleary_. Her other podcasts are My Favourite Album With Andrea Cleary and The Nialler9 Podcast. Her newsletter is at https://andrea-cleary.ghost.io/ Thank you to Dee McDonnell for our artwork. We have a Patreon! You can get bonus episodes including our patreon-only show Started/Finished where we talk about the pop culture we started and finished recently. We also have some free lil bits of merch. It's patreon.com/juvenalia This episode was produced by Alan. Juvenalia is a Tall Tales podcast. Thank you Cassie.
S1 · E209
Apr 23, 2025 · 1 hr 15 min
209: Alien Resurrection with James Hudson
James Hudson is the festival director of the Trans Image Trans Experience (TITE) Festival which runs in the Lighthouse from April 25th-27th. He joined Alan and Andrea to talk about the fourth film in the Aien Quadrilogy, 1997’s Alien Resurrection. We talked about picking up gender clues from Ripley 8 and Coll, Tumblr RP, the Joss Whedon of it all, Vera Drew, the tragedy of the Newborn, MTV’s Teen Wolf, interesting faces and so much more. James is the festival director of @TiTeFestival. You can find out more at tite.ie Alan is @alan_maguire. Juvenalia is his main thing right now but he does a bit of standup sometimes too. Andrea @AndreaCleary_. Her other podcasts are My Favourite Album With Andrea Cleary and The Nialler9 Podcast. Her newsletter is at https://andrea-cleary.ghost.io/ Thank you to Dee McDonnell for our artwork. We have a Patreon! You can get bonus episodes including our patreon-only show Started/Finished where we talk about the pop culture we started and finished recently. We also have some free lil bits of merch. It's patreon.com/juvenalia This episode was produced by Alan. Juvenalia is a Tall Tales podcast. Thank you Cassie.
S1 · E208
Apr 14, 2025 · 1 hr 6 min
208: Speed (1994)
the bus goes fast Alan is ⁠@alan_maguire⁠. Juvenalia is his main thing right now but he does a bit of standup sometimes too. Andrea ⁠ @AndreaCleary_⁠. Her other podcasts are My Favourite Album With Andrea Cleary and The Nialler9 Podcast. Her newsletter is at ⁠https://andrea-cleary.ghost.io/⁠ Thank you to Dee McDonnell for our artwork. We have a Patreon! You can get bonus episodes including our patreon-only show Started/Finished where we talk about the pop culture we started and finished recently. We also have some free lil bits of merch. It's ⁠patreon.com/juvenalia⁠ This episode was produced by Alan. Juvenalia is a Tall Tales podcast. Thank you Cassie.
S1 · E207
Mar 27, 2025 · 50 min
207: Kate Nash's Made Of Bricks with Maria Kelly
Singer-songwriter Maria Kelly is back to talk to us about Kate Nash’s 2007 debut album Made Of Bricks. We talk about Kate Nash’s songwriting, production choices, her appeal to teenage girls, Foundations, Foundations, Foundations. Also Alan accidentally repeats a story he told the last time Maria was on the show. Maria is @mariakellymusic. Her fantastic new album Waiting Room is out now. Alan is @alan_maguire. Juvenalia is his main thing right now but he does a bit of standup sometimes too. Andrea @AndreaCleary_. Her other podcasts are My Favourite Album With Andrea Cleary and The Nialler9 Podcast. Her newsletter is at https://andrea-cleary.ghost.io/ Thank you to Dee McDonnell for our artwork. We have a Patreon! You can get bonus episodes including our patreon-only show Started/Finished where we talk about the pop culture we started and finished recently. We also have some free lil bits of merch. It's patreon.com/juvenalia This episode was produced by Alan. Juvenalia is a Tall Tales podcast. Thank you Cassie.
Mar 22, 2025 · 9 min
Patreon Preview - Severance Season 2 Finale Reaction
Hello, here's the first ten minutes of Alan and Andrea's reaction to the season 2 finale of Severance. The full 95 minute episode is available for our Slammer-level patrons over on Patreon. Enjoy!
S1 · E206
Mar 14, 2025 · 1 hr 11 min
206: Hackers with Julie Hough
HACK THE PLANET! $p@gB011(Julie Hough of HAVVK and PostLast) is back and she’s brought us something special, 1995’s Hackers. She joins Steve Buffers (Alan) and Em@il (Andrea) to talk about the music, the fashion, the rollerblades, that once scene where Fisher Stevens skitches on a limo for no reason, and lots lots more. Julie is @julie_hawk. You can hear her in HAVVK and PostLast. Alan is @alan_maguire. Juvenalia is his main thing right now but he does a bit of standup sometimes too. Andrea @AndreaCleary_. Her other podcasts are My Favourite Album With Andrea Cleary and The Nialler9 Podcast. Her newsletter is at https://andrea-cleary.ghost.io/ Thank you to Dee McDonnell for our artwork. We have a Patreon! You can get bonus episodes including our patreon-only show Started/Finished where we talk about the pop culture we started and finished recently. We also have some free lil bits of merch. It's patreon.com/juvenalia This episode was produced by Alan. Juvenalia is a Tall Tales podcast. Thank you Cassie.
S1 · E205
Feb 20, 2025 · 1 hr 2 min
205: Tegan And Sara with Kelly Earley
We’re back baby! Back with a bang because Irish internet legend Kelly Earley is here to talk about how important Tegan And Sara were to her as a young lesbian. We talk about Tumblr, treatong albums like haircuts, JoJo Siwa, Yearncore, and finding community on the internet. We’re happy to be back, we’re happy you’re here. Kelly is @earley. Her Substack is Kelly’s Rubbish. Alan is @alan_maguire. Juvenalia is his main thing right now but he does a bit of standup sometimes too. Andrea @AndreaCleary_. Her other podcasts are My Favourite Album With Andrea Cleary and The Nialler9 Podcast. Her newsletter is at https://andrea-cleary.ghost.io/ Thank you to Dee McDonnell for our artwork. We have a Patreon! You can get bonus episodes including our patreon-only show Started/Finished where we talk about the pop culture we started and finished recently. We also have some free lil bits of merch. It's patreon.com/juvenalia This episode was produced by Alan. Juvenalia is a Tall Tales podcast. Thank you Cassie.
Dec 18, 2024 · 1 hr 14 min
Christmas 2024! Gremlins & Miracle On 34th Street
Hey! We’re back! Alan has never seen Miracle On 34th Street, Andrea has never seen Gremlins… until now. We’re talking about Gizmo, we’re talking about Phoebe Cates’s inappropriate Christmas stories, we’re tsalking about Mara Wilson and Richard Attenborough. All that good stuff. Thanks for sticking around, see you in 2025! Alan is @alan_maguire. Juvenalia is his main thing right now but he does a bit of standup sometimes too. Andrea @AndreaCleary_. Her other podcasts are My Favourite Album With Andrea Cleary and The Nialler9 Podcast. Her newsletter is at https://andrea-cleary.ghost.io/ Thank you to Dee McDonnell for our artwork. We have a Patreon! You can get bonus episodes including our patreon-only show Started/Finished where we talk about the pop culture we started and finished recently. We also have some free lil bits of merch. It's patreon.com/juvenalia This episode was produced by Alan. Juvenalia is a Tall Tales podcast. Thank you Cassie.
S1 · E204
Oct 19, 2024 · 1 hr 11 min
204: Ghostwatch (1992) with Nick Roche
On Halloween Night 1992, the BBC aired Ghostwatch, which purported to be a live investigation into a house and family that had been plagued by poltergeist activity. The studio segments were hosted by Michael Parkinson, while children’s presenter Sarah Greene explored the house and interviewed the family at the center of the haunting. Things started to go very wrong and the show ended in disaster. Due to a quirk of scheduling, a large part of the audience didn’t realise that it was all fake. Ghostwatch is frequently listed as one of the scariest TV moments of all time. Ghostwatch was written by Stephen Volk and directed by Lesley Manning. Comics writer and artist Nick Roche joins us to relive his experience of watching Ghostwatch, aged 13, dressed as Batman for Halloween. Nick is @NickRoche. His orignal graphic novel Scarenthood is out now and he’s currently the robot designer for Transformers:EarthSpark on Nickolodeon. Alan is @alan_maguire. Juvenalia is his main thing right now but he does a bit of standup sometimes too. Andrea @AndreaCleary_. Her other podcasts are My Favourite Album With Andrea Cleary and The Nialler9 Podcast. Her newsletter is at https://andrea-cleary.ghost.io/ Thank you to Dee McDonnell for our artwork. We have a Patreon! You can get bonus episodes including our patreon-only show Started/Finished where we talk about the pop culture we started and finished recently. We also have some free lil bits of merch. It's patreon.com/juvenalia This episode was produced by Alan. Juvenalia is a Tall Tales podcast. Thank you Cassie.
S1 · E203
Oct 3, 2024 · 56 min
203: Autumn Recs 24
Hey there, Alan and Andrea have some recommendations for you now that autumn has properly hit. They’ve got an album and three TV shows. We say recommendations but you’ve definitely heard of at least two of these already. The things are: Hayley Heynderickx - I Need To Start A Garden (with some bonus chat about Cat Cylde) Frasier (told you you’d heard of some of them already) Gilmore Girls (ditto, also the cheek of Alan to go to great lengths to explain how he wanted to avoid obvious choices for autumn albums and then pick GILMORE GIRLS as a TV rec) Midnight Mass (Netflix) Alan is @alan_maguire. Juvenalia is his main thing right now but he does a bit of standup sometimes too. Andrea @AndreaCleary_. Her other podcasts are My Favourite Album With Andrea Cleary and The Nialler9 Podcast. Her newsletter is at https://andrea-cleary.ghost.io/ Thank you to Dee McDonnell for our artwork. We have a Patreon! You can get bonus episodes including our patreon-only show Started/Finished where we talk about the pop culture we started and finished recently. If you liked this episode you’ll liove Started/Finished. We also have some free lil bits of merch. It's patreon.com/juvenalia This episode was produced by Alan. Juvenalia is a Tall Tales podcast. Thank you Cassie.
S1 · E202
Sep 19, 2024 · 56 min
202: Brainiac: Science Abuse
Happy Bisexuality Awareness Week! To celebrate, award winning food TikTok/Instagram person Sian Conway joined us to talk about Brainiac: Science Abuse. If you know you know. We talked all about our school experiences of science, Richard “The Hamster“ Hammond, and of course, Jon Tickle walking across a swimming pool full of custard. We’d also forgotten quite how sexist the show was so we pitch some ideas to rebalance the scales if the show ever comes back. Sian is @sianconway. She won the Irish Food Writing Award for best Instagram/TikTok account in 2023. Alan is @alan_maguire. Juvenalia is his main thing right now but he does a bit of standup sometimes too. Andrea @AndreaCleary_. Her other podcasts are My Favourite Album With Andrea Cleary and The Nialler9 Podcast. Her newsletter is at https://andrea-cleary.ghost.io/ Thank you to Dee McDonnell for our artwork. We have a Patreon! You can get bonus episodes including our patreon-only show Started/Finished where we talk about the pop culture we started and finished recently. We also have some free lil bits of merch. It's patreon.com/juvenalia This episode was produced by Alan. Juvenalia is a Tall Tales podcast. Thank you Cassie.
S1 · E201
Sep 5, 2024 · 56 min
201: The Fox And The Hound with Rachel Connolly
Writer Rachel Connolly joins us to talk about Disney’s The Fox And The Hound (1981). We’re asking all the big questions this episode, questions like: why does Disney keep making sexy foxes? How much, if any, moral instruction do children take from the media they consume? Did the worm in Snow White have a face? And many more. Rachel is @RachelConnoll14. Her debut novel Lazy City is out now. Her Substack is rachelconnolly.substack.com. Both are excellent. Alan is @alan_maguire. Juvenalia is his main thing right now but he does a bit of standup sometimes too. Andrea @AndreaCleary_. Her other podcasts are My Favourite Album With Andrea Cleary and The Nialler9 Podcast. Her newsletter is at https://andrea-cleary.ghost.io/ Thank you to Dee McDonnell for our artwork. We have a Patreon! You can get bonus episodes including our patreon-only show Started/Finished where we talk about the pop culture we started and finished recently. We also have some free lil bits of merch. It's patreon.com/juvenalia This episode was produced by Alan. Juvenalia is a Tall Tales podcast. Thank you Cassie.
S1 · E200
Aug 22, 2024 · 1 hr 6 min
200: Buffy The Vampire Slayer with Kate Nash
Musician and actress Kate Nash joins us for our 200th episode as we take another run at Buffy The Vampire Slayer. Kate is a Buffy mega-fan so we had plenty to talk about. Things like Spike, Angel, femininity, The Body, a defence of Xander, Band Candy, and Kate’s live performance of the entirety of Once More With Feeling in 2012. Kate is @KateNash. Her latest album 9 Sad Symphonies is out now. It’s excellent, you’ll love it. Alan is @alan_maguire. Juvenalia is his main thing right now but he does a bit of standup sometimes too. Andrea @AndreaCleary_. Her other podcasts are My Favourite Album With Andrea Cleary and The Nialler9 Podcast. Her newsletter is at https://andrea-cleary.ghost.io/ Thank you to Dee McDonnell for our artwork. This is episode 200 of Juvenalia. Thanks to everybody who’s listened to us over the years and to all of our amazing guests. We have a Patreon! You can get bonus episodes including our patreon-only show Started/Finished where we talk about the pop culture we started and finished recently. We also have some free lil bits of merch. It's patreon.com/juvenalia This episode was produced by Alan. Juvenalia is a Tall Tales podcast. Thank you Cassie.
S1 · E199
Aug 8, 2024 · 1 hr 5 min
199: Starship Troopers with Callum Orr
Singer-songwriter Callum Orr joins us to talk about Paul Verhoeven’s super-camp, super-violent satire of fascist propaganda Starship Troopers (1997). We talk about the difference between watching it for the first time as an adult and as a younger person, the effectiveness of the satire, we pick apart the imagery, we get deep on this thing. Callum is @callvm.orr. His debut album The Trials Of Knowing is out now. Alan is @alan_maguire. Juvenalia is his main thing right now but he does a bit of standup sometimes too. Andrea @AndreaCleary_. Her other podcasts are My Favourite Album With Andrea Cleary and The Nialler9 Podcast. Her newsletter is at https://andrea-cleary.ghost.io/ Thank you to Dee McDonnell for our artwork. We have a Patreon! You can get bonus episodes including our patreon-only show Started/Finished where we talk about the pop culture we started and finished recently. We also have some free lil bits of merch. It's patreon.com/juvenalia This episode was produced by Alan. Juvenalia is a Tall Tales podcast. Thank you Cassie.
S1 · E198
Jul 25, 2024 · 53 min
198: The Chronicles Of Narnia with Janina Matthewson
Author and podcaster Janina Matthewson joins us as we try to cover as much of C.S. Lewis's Narnia books as is physically possible in 53 minutes. We talk about the religious stuff, the mistreatment of Susan in The Last Battle, about how maybe The Magician’s Nephew is the best one?, about why consistent lore and geography is overrated, and lots more. Janina is @J9andlf. She does the podcasts Within The Wires and History Is Sexy and also writes books. Her latest one is The Horses. 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.

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