Juvenalia

Electronic soul artist, songwriter, and producer Laura Keane, better known as ELKAE joins us to talk about an album that had a huge impact on her as a child, Christina Aguilera's Stripped. We try to figure out what makes Aguilera's voice so compelling, the Disney to Edgy pipeline, the message of Beautiful, and a whole lot more. Alan sings, it's a whole thing. Enjoy.

ELKAE's new single Girls Like YouLike Me, is out now everywhere songs can be bought and listened to. You can find Laura on Instagram @elkaemusic

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

Sarah is @griffski. Her many books are in all good bookshops and her many zines are at sarahmariagriff.com

Thank you to Dee McDonnell for our artwork.

We have a Patreon! You can get bonus episodes and free lil bits of merch. It's patreon.com/juvenalia 

Juvenalia is a Tall Tales podcast. Thank you Cassie.

(CN: Heathers is a dark movie that deals with suicide, murder, homophobia, fatphobia, and eating disorders. We discuss all of those things in this episode so if you need to skip this one we get it.)

Sophie White of The Creep Dive and Mother Of Pod returns to Juvenalia to talk about the extremely dark 1989 horror comedy Heathers. We talk about the chemistry of Winona Ryder and Christian Slater, how dark, dark, super dark this film, how it’s still funny though, about the disastrous 2018 TV reboot, the wonderful music, and about dark teen comedies in general.

Sophie White is @sophwhitewhoop on instagram. Her amazing new book Corpsing: My Body And Other Horror Stories  is out now on Tramp Press.

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

Andrea is no longer on social media but you can find her on the Nialler9 Podcast and at her wonderful newsletter at andreacleary.substack.com

Thank you to Dee McDonnell for our artwork.

We have a Patreon! You can get bonus episodes and free lil bits of merch. It's patreon.com/juvenalia 

Juvenalia is a Tall Tales podcast. Thank you Cassie.

Muireann O’Connell from off the telly joins us to talk about the CLASSIC late nineties reality dating show, Streetmate hosted by Davina McCall. It is an absolute trip going back to a pre-Big Brother and social media reality show where nobody knows all the rules of how to be on TV and we had a blast exploring it. We also had lots to say about turn of the century fashion like Hobo and Nope. And if the idea of Hobo and Nope being called Turn Of The Century Fashion made you feel a little bit sick then welcome to Juvenalia! Everything you like is old now and all your favs are problematic.

You can see Muireann on The Six O’Clock Show on Virgin Media One, follow her on instagram @muireann.o and find her excellent podcast Let’s Solve Nothing in all the podcast places.

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

Sarah is @griffski. Her many books are in all good bookshops and her many zines are at sarahmariagriff.com

Thank you to Dee McDonnell for our artwork.

We have a Patreon! You can get bonus episodes and free lil bits of merch. It's patreon.com/juvenalia 

Juvenalia is a Tall Tales podcast. Thank you Cassie.

P.S. We recorded this episode before Davina’s incredibly misjudged comments about women’s safety and men’s mental health otherwise it definitely would have been discussed.

Writer Rachael Krishna joined us to talk about Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice’s Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. We talked about Donny Osmond, genre experiments, Any Dream Will Do, and a very good chat about musicals based on existing properties. It’s a great episode, we hope you like it.

Rachael is @RachaelKrishna on Twitter. You should subscribe to her excellent food newsletter Half And Half

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

Sarah is @griffski. Her many books are in all good bookshops and her many zines are at sarahmariagriff.com

Thank you to Dee McDonnell for our artwork.

We have a Patreon! You can get bonus episodes and free lil bits of merch. It's patreon.com/juvenalia 

Juvenalia is a Tall Tales podcast. Thank you Cassie.

It’s a crossover episode! Cassie, Jen, and Sophie from The Creep Dive joined us and we joined them to talk about The Blair Witch Project in the first Tall Tales Big Zoom. We just generally creeped ourselves out, talked about how good Heather Donahue was as Heather, and had a lengthy digression about secrets and Sleep No More. It was an absolute blast. 

You can find Cassie, Jen, and Sophie over at @TheCreepDive on Instagram and @DiveCreep on Twitter. If you’re not listening to The Creep Dive then you should be. 

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

Sarah is @griffski. Her many books are in all good bookshops and her many zines are at sarahmariagriff.com 

Thank you to Dee McDonnell for our artwork. 

We have a Patreon! You can get bonus episodes and free lil bits of merch. It's patreon.com/juvenalia 

This episode was produced and wrangled by Cassie Delaney. Thank you Cassie. Juvenalia is a Tall Tales podcast.

Fionnuala Jones of Bandwagons and *gestures around* the internet returns to Juvenalia to discuss the other late 90s Japanese monster-based megahit, Digimon. We compare Digimon and Pokémon, discover which Digimon wore jeans, and generally agree that Digimon was excellent and totally deserving of a rewatch. 

You can watch Jenna Stoeber's excellent video What If Digimon Had Beaten Pokémon here 

Fionnuala is @FionnualaJay everywhere, you should follow her, she's excellent. Fionnuala's podcast Bandwagons which she co-hosts with Bríd Browne is in all the podcast places. 

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

Sarah is @griffski. Her many books are in all good bookshops and her many zines are at sarahmariagriff.com 

Thank you to Dee McDonnell for our artwork. 

We have a Patreon! You can get bonus episodes and free lil bits of merch. It's patreon.com/juvenalia 

Juvenalia is a Tall Tales podcast. Thank you Cassie.

Ireland's premier non-binary drag entity Wren Dennehy aka Avoca Reaction joins us to talk about the 90's family film that all 90s family films aspire to be, Mrs. Doubtfire. We talk about gender obviously, the genius of Robin Williams, the underrated performance by Sally Field that GROUNDS THE WHOLE FILM, how good the child actors are, Pierce Brosnan's beautiful face, San Francisco, Harvey Fierstein, and wrap it up with a chat about Dublin youth theatre, writing, and our school musicals. It's a nice hour, we could all do with a nice hour.

You can find Wren on twitter at @AvocaReaction where they'll be announcing exciting upcoming projects and such.

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

Sarah is @griffski. Her many books are in all good bookshops and her many zines are at sarahmariagriff.com

Thank you to Dee McDonnell for our artwork.

We have a Patreon! You can get bonus episodes and free lil bits of merch. It's patreon.com/juvenalia

Juvenalia is a Tall Tales podcast. Thank you Cassie.

New Year New Us! Not really, we're exactly the same, everything is exactly the same BUT we decided to do things a little differently for our first episode of 2021. Alan, Sarah, and Cassie Delaney all picked the thing that absolutely changed them forever, their Juvenalia Prime topic and talked about it. Cassie's Creep Dive energy was a bad influence and we ran out of time before we could talk about Sarah's thing so we're going to do that on Patreon at a later date. Right here, right now though you get to listen to Cassie talk about Sister Act II and Alan talk about The Bends. In between there's lots of talk about choirs and just the joy of singing in harmony. Happy new year everybody.

Also, near the end of the episode Cassie looks at her phone and realises that an attempted coup is happening in the US Capitol so listen out for that little piece of history.

Cassie is @cassielorraine. She runs Tall Tales, the podcast network that this very podcast appears on and co-hosts The Creep Dive.

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

Sarah is @griffski. Her many books are in all good bookshops and her many zines are at sarahmariagriff.com

Thank you to Dee McDonnell for our artwork.

We have a Patreon! You can get bonus episodes and free lil bits of merch. It's patreon.com/juvenalia

Juvenalia is a Tall Tales podcast. Thank you Cassie.

Millennial Saturday morning TV shows! The true golden age of television! Cat Deeley! Ant and Dec! Zoe Ball! Jamie Theakston! Trevor and Simon! Alan and Sarah go through the many ways in which Going Live, LIVE & Kicking, and SMTV Live are in many ways the most important television shows of all time with some timely diversions into British panel shows and the career of Simon Amstell. Also Alan and Sarah talk about their histories working in and appearing on kids TV. We couldn't think of a Christmas episode we wanted to do so we did this instead. Hope you like it whenever you listen to it! Happy last week of the year, thanks for sticking with us this year xx

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

Sarah is @griffski. Her many books are in all good bookshops and her many zines are at sarahmariagriff.com

Thank you to Dee McDonnell for our artwork.

We have a Patreon! You can get bonus episodes and free lil bits of merch. It's patreon.com/juvenalia

Juvenalia is a Tall Tales podcast. Thank you Cassie.

Jeffrey Cranor of, among many other things Welcome To Night Vale and Within The Wires,  joins us to talk about 1981's swords 'n' stop motion epic Clash Of The Titans.  We admire Ray Harryhausen's uncanny creatures, marvel at the fact that it came out the same week as Raiders Of The Lost Ark,  and generally poke and prod at a classic movie that seems unstuck in time.

Jeffrey Cranor is @happierman. He co-writes the podcasts Welcome to Night Vale and Within the Wires and is the co-founder of the independent podcast network Night Vale Presents.

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

Sarah is @griffski. Her many books are in all good bookshops and her many zines are at sarahmariagriff.com

Thank you to Dee McDonnell for our artwork.

We have a Patreon! You can get bonus episodes and free lil bits of merch. It's patreon.com/juvenalia

Juvenalia is a Tall Tales podcast. Thank you Cassie.