Juvenalia

We kicked out the jams at The Soundhouse as part of the Dublin Podcast Festival with our fourth live show. Since it was our second time at the DPF we decided to go twice as big and have two guests. Niamh Farrell of Ham Sandwich told us all about her childhood love of Take That and Mark Owen and then Nadine O'Regan of the Sunday Business Post told us about being a teenage grunge fan in West Cork. We had lots of fun and we can't thank Nadine and Niamh enough for being fabulous guests. 

You can find Nadine O'Regan on twitter @nadineoregan and her podcast My Roots Are Showing is on Soundcloud.

Thank you to everybody at The Soundhouse, HeadStuff, and Aiken for making this episode happen 

Juvenalia original artwork by Dee McDonnell

Shane Langan of Diet Of Worms, The Walshes, Becca's Bunch, and the WGM podcast joins Alan and Sarah to talk about something that's very close to all of their hearts, Spaced. We're all very enthusiastic about it in a low energy way because it was very warm in the studio. 

Shane Langan is @Shaneinho on Twitter. Find The WGM on your podcast app AFTER you've finished this episode.

We're doing a live show as part of the Dublin Podcast Festival with on September 30th in the Soundhouse. You should come 

Juvenalia original artwork by Dee McDonnell

Jenna Stoeber, video producer at Polygon and co-host of Fandalites, joined Alan and guest co-host Caroline O'Donoghue to talk about the classic anime series Sailor Moon. Now, Sailor Moon had a very limited run on our side of the Atlantic so we're very grateful to Jenna for being patient with us and answering our questions and guiding us through the beautiful, complicated world of the Pretty Guardian Sailors. We talked about representation and merch and Barenaked Ladies and all kinds of topics. Plus, Jenna told Caroline and Alan which Sailors they were. It was a good time. 

Note: This episode was recorded before the final episode of Adventure Time aired. Jenna talks about Princess Bubblegum and Marceline's relationship being kept offscreen. This obviously isn't true as of the finale but Jenna's larger point remains so we've decided to leave it in. 

Jenna Stoeber is @thejenna on twitter. Find her video work on Polygon.com and her Animorphs podcast is called Fandalites.

We're doing a live show as part of the Dublin Podcast Festival with The Sunday Sermon on September 30th in the Soundhouse.  

Juvenalia original artwork by Dee McDonnell

Emilie Pine, author of the best-selling essay collection Notes To Self, joined Alan and Sarah in the All Curious Minds tent at the All Together Now festival in Co. Waterford to talk about a book that was very important to her when she was young, Louisa May Alcott's Little Women.  We talked about boxes of books, rebel girls, gothic novels, not having a tv, and all about Jo. 

Thank you so much to Linda and Erin of All Curious Minds for having us and to Lisa and Sarah of Tramp Press for their help. We didn't have mics on the audience so you can't hear them too well so you'll have to take our word for it that they enjoyed it. 

You can find Emilie on Twitter @emiliepine. Notes To Self is getting rave reviews from absolutely everybody and you should read it immediately.

We're doing a live show as part of the Dublin Podcast Festival with The Sunday Sermon on September 30th in the Soundhouse.  

Juvenalia original artwork by Dee McDonnell

Claire Beck, DJ and host of the podcasts Fear/Fun and Tug Life, takes Alan and Sarah to school about the history of hip hop and Rapper's Delight's place in it. Claire is an amazing DJ and listening to her talk about the art of DJing was one of the most interesting experiences we've had doing Juvenalia.

 Claire is @clairebeck1052 on Twitter. Fear/Fun is on the HeadStuff Podcast Network and Tug Life is on Mixcloud

We're doing a live show as part of the Dublin Podcast Festival with The Sunday Sermon on September 30th in the Soundhouse.  

Here's the trailer for Fresh Dressed as mentioned by Claire at the end and here's the Amen Break doc  

Juvenalia original artwork by Dee McDonnell

Daily Edge writer Fionnuala Jones joins Alan and special guest co-host Caroline O'Donoghue to talk about Stardoll, a fashion-based social network for teenz from 2006. We talked about Fionnuala spending hundreds of euro for Superstar status, the Olsen twins, making friends online, Second Life, Love Island, and fashion, fashion, FASHION. 

Fionnuala Jones is @FionnualaJay on Twitter

Juvenalia original artwork by Dee McDonnell

Comedian Ruth Hunter joins Alan and Ellen to talk about Gilmore Girls. We talk about all aspects of all the seasons so there are tons of spoilers. You have been warned. Topics covered include: good kissing gifs, the evolution of Jess, #LaneDeservedBetter, rich people are bad, and the relative sexlessness of Gilmore Girls. 

Ruth Hunter is @ruthokhunter on Twitter. Her show Science Idiot is running at the Edinburgh Fringe from Aug 4-27th in Barbados, Cowgate (Room 6).

Juvenalia original artwork by Dee McDonnell

Music writer and co-host of The Nialler9 Podcast Andrea Cleary joins Alan and Ellen to talk about the best little pig in the world, Babe. We talked about vegetarianism, feeling all the feelings, teaching moral lessons with animals, is Babe a sports film?, the many ways in which James Cromwell is wonderful, Alistair MacLeod short stories, Ulysses, Christine Cavanaugh, and just generally about how Babe is the sweetest little guy in cinema history. 

Andrea Cleary is @AndreaCleary_ on Twitter. Her music writing can be found mostly on HeadStuff and GoldenPlec and the Nialler9 podcast is available in all the podcast places.

Juvenalia original artwork by Dee McDonnell

Author and awards-magnet Louise O'Neill joined Alan and Sarah to talk about Enid Blyton's classic series about a fantastical tree that's not nearby, The Magic Faraway Tree. We talked about the Famous Five vs Secret Seven, the comforting repetition of Enid Blyton, updating books for modern audiences, and, seeing as we had two of Ireland's best YA authors in the studio, a lot of talk about writing YA. Then we had a patented Juvenalia digression into Adele's Titanic-themed party, the Met Gala and cultural appropriation. The usual. 

Louise O'Neill is @oneilllo on Twitter. Her novels Only Ever Yours, Asking For It, Almost Love, and The Surface Breaks are all available now and are all excellent. The stage adaptation of Asking For It is in The Everyman in Cork until June 23rd and in the Abbey Theatre in Dublin from November 9th-24th.

Juvenalia original artwork by Dee McDonnell

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

Sahar is @saharmali on Twitter.

Juvenalia original artwork by Dee McDonnell