Juvenalia

Academic and writer Sinéad Burke of Minnie Mélange joins Alan and Sarah Maria Griffin to talk about the many ways in which Disney’s Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs has been a part of her life. We talk about pantos, romantic gestures, Sinéad’s amazing parents and family, the Poll Tax, Alternative Miss Ireland, Willow, Representations of little people in the media, making some of the seven dwarfs female, female friendship in Disney films, The George, Pantibliss, Peter Dinklage, Warwick Davis, Pierce Brosnan, Pixels, Snow White and the Huntsman, Maureen Grant, The Olympia, how casting people of average height as little people is stupid and offensive, and loads and loads about Sinéad Burke and Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. ENJOY

Juvenalia original artwork by Dee McDonnell

Giles Brody of The Mess Around and The Sunday Sermon Podcast talks to Alan and Ellen Tannam about Ghostbusters. At least that was the plan. It turned into more of a Ghostbusters-themed chat. We enjoyed it though, hopefully you will too. We talked about a lot of things including bingo playing taxi drivers, Eddie Murphy, Nas, John Belushi, Animal House, Michael Cera, Be Here Now, Crystal Skull Vodka, The House of Blues, Giles’s New University, Horses, Rick Moranis is sound, Ellen Hates Garry Shandling, celebrity atheism, Bill Murray several times in various ways, Groundhog Day, Harold Ramis, A Tom Cruise Film That I Refuse To Check The Name Of, creative partnerships, A phonecall from Sarah Silverman, meeting your heroes, Thom Yorke, funny people with guns, Micallef, Donegal People, the real reason Michael Collins was killed, De Valera, Cathal Brugha is hardcore, army friends, short men, Home Alone, visa issues, Problem Child 2, the new Ghostbusters movie, and loads of other bits. 

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Juvenalia original artwork by Dee McDonnell

Welcome to the second Juvenalia minisode. I won’t keep you long. I just want to say a load of thank yous, tell an embarrassing story about shovels, four-year olds, and Galaxy High, and tell you what’s coming up on Juvenalia in the next while. Spoiler alert, my first crush was Aimee from Galaxy High, a mostly forgotten cartoon from the mid-eighties. It was formative. I didn’t realise exactly how formative until I revisited it for this podcast. Anyway, that’s enough from me, this is just a minisode. 

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Juvenalia original artwork by Dee McDonnell

Writer Jeanne Sutton joins Alan Maguire and Sarah Maria Griffin to talk about Disney’s Beauty and the Beast. We have a good long chat about things like, but not limited to, Disney On Ice, big books, romance novels, problematic favs, Lena Dunham, angry wardrobes, if you were Belle would you stay in the castle, Twitter beefs, DVD commentaries, Les Miserables, The 10th Kingdom, The Wolf Among Us, Jupiter Ascending, which version of the Beast is the sexy beast? is Sarah Maria Griffin a furry? Shrek, Angela Carter, Bluebeard, Tom Hiddleston, Disney cruises, Stockholm Syndrome, the Good Nazi narrative, Inspirational Romance Novels, Bollywood, and giving Zach Snyder’s money to women. A busy episode I’m sure you’ll agree. 

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Juvenalia original artwork by Dee McDonnell

Welcome to the first of the Juvenalia minisodes. In this minisode, Alan Maguire and Ellen Tannam do a dramatic reading of chapter one of R.L. Stine’s Point Horror classic, Beach Party. More chapters will follow in future minisodes. Alan and Ellen have never read Beach Party and are excited to see where this all leads. Not much more to say about this one really. Enjoy. 

Juvenalia original artwork by Dee McDonnell

Alan and Ellen talk to comedian Damon Blake of Fox and Blake about the mind-bending 1990 anti-drugs cartoon Cartoon All-Stars To The Rescue in which The Smurfs, Alvin & The Chipmunks, Alf, Garfield, Winnie The Pooh, Slimer, the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, the Muppet Babies, and Bugs Bunny team up to convince a drug-taking teen to change his ways. It’s powerful stuff. 

We cover a lot of ground in this episode including drugs, Michelangelo’s appeal to at-risk kids, Australian prime ministers, single-sex Catholic schooling, The Pioneers, The Fáinne, Tallaght Leisureplex, the debauched secrets of the voices behind your favourite cartoon characters, Disney Cruises, the catchiest anti-drugs song ever, the tragedy of Lorenzo Music, and the effectiveness of the war on drugs. Enjoy and remember that only losers and cool people do drugs. 

Juvenalia original artwork by Dee McDonnell

Alan Maguire and Ellen Tannam talk to writer Sarah Maria Griffin about a film that was important to her as a teenager, The Fifth Element. 

This is the first episode of Juvenalia. If you enjoyed it then why not subscribe on iTunes or Stitcher or similar? We’ve got some very cool, interesting people coming in to talk about pop culture that was important to them when they were young in upcoming episodes including Damon Blake, Jeanne Sutton, Sinéad Burke, Giles Brody, Emer McLysaght, Louise Bruton, and lots of other people that Alan follows on Twitter and wanted an excuse to hang out with briefly in real life. Ok, thanks for listening. bye for now, see you soon. 

Juvenalia original artwork by Dee McDonnell