Juvenalia

We had a scheduling mix-up so Alan and Ellen sat down and had a chat about the thing that they’d pick if they were a Juvenalia guest, The Simpsons. This is not a rigorous history of The Simpsons, we jump around a lot and probably get things wrong but this is OUR Simpsons so let us have it. 

Happy New Year. We have zero solid plans for what’s happening with Juvenalia this year but we’re sure it’ll be very exciting and good. 

This episode is sponsored by Just Eat 

Ellen writes for Silicon Republic so go there and read her stuff.

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Hello and welcome to the Juvenalia Christmas Smalltacular 2017! We decided to take it back to basics this year. Just Alan, Ellen, and Sarah talking about some of their favourite Christmas memories and how their 2017 went. This somehow led to a solid ten minutes of chatting about how much we love the McElroys and The Adventure Zone but the rest is pretty Christmassy with talk of Mega Drives, N64s, selection boxes, carols, Carol, and lots of other stuff. 

The singer who did the version of Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas that made Alan cry in college was Niall McCabe. Alan is sorry that he couldn’t remember Niall’s surname. 

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We want to say a huge thank you to everyone who listened, subscribed, or supported Juvenalia in any way this year. We love making this podcast and love that you’re out there listening. HAPPY CHRISTMAS! WE LOVE YOU ALL

Stephen Colfer of Dreamgun and the Dreamgun Film Reads podcast joins Alan and Ellen to talk about 2000’s The Legend Of Zelda: Majora’s Mask. We talk about the weird loneliness of Majora’s Mask, loft living, ludonarrative dissonance, watching your friends play computer games, official console magazines, Pokemon tournaments, and loads of other stuff. 

Alan has another podcast on the HeadStuff Podcast Network running until Christmas. It’s called Roast Chestnuts. He reviews a made for TV Christmas film with Jeanne Sutton and a special guest every week. If you like Juvenalia, you’ll like Roast Chestnuts. 

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Author Dave Rudden joins Alan and Sarah so that they can feel all the emotions about Terry Pratchett. This is a long one so make a pot of tea or plan a long drive somewhere. We focused mostly on the Discworld novels particularly Vimes and the witches. There’s lots of enthusing and lots of quoting from memory. Hopefully it’ll make you pick up a Discworld book or any Terry Pratchett book really. They’re pretty much all good. Enjoy. 

Dave’s books Knights Of the Borrowed Dark and The Forever Court are out now. The Forever Court is nominated for Senior Children’s Book of the Year a the BGE Irish Book Awards. If you’re quick you can still vote for it here

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Comedian and podcaster Erin McGathy of This Feels Terrible, HarmonQuest and many other things joins Alan & Ellen to talk about Jim Henson’s 1986 cult classic Labyrinth. Erin has very deep feelings about Labyrinth and was kind enough to share loads of them with us particularly the ones about David Bowie. Ellen and Erin also formed a sacred and lasting bond over their water bottles. This Feels Terrible is on all the podcast apps and is Very Good. 

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Rebecca Keane is a standup comedian, writer, and excellent Twitter person. She joined us to talk about the colossus of 90s Saturday evening entertainment, Stars In Their Eyes. We covered all the important topics like the niceness of Matthew Kelly and the bleakness of the intro videos. We brainstormed who we’d be if we ever got the chance to be on it and we managed to shoehorn in an impressive number of Drag Race references. Hope you like it! 

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Well we did it. We did a live show at the Dublin Podcast Festival. We did a quiz that went on slightly longer than planned and then we talked to singer and actor Maria Doyle Kennedy of The Commitments, Orphan Black, The Tudors, Dexter, Father Ted, and loads more about The Wizard Of Oz with some detours along the way to talk about mermaids, ghosts, Billie Holiday, and Maria’s directorial debut A Different Kind Of Day, before we finished with a song from Maria and her husband Kieran (who is a lovely man) from Maria’s self-titled new album which is available now. 

As you can hear from the episode we were delighted to meet Maria and do a live episode so thanks to everyone who came and thanks to HeadStuff and Aiken for organising a podcast festival and letting us be a part of it. Thank you also to everyone at The Workman’s Club who made it happen and to Sarah Garvey for looking after us. 

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Moone Boy and Nowhere Fast‘s Clare Monnelly joins us to talk about Animaniacs. We love Animaniacs a whole lot so it was an extreme pleasure to geek out about it for fifty minutes with our new best friend Clare. We talked about getting meta jokes as a child, the hidden filthy jokes, Pinky And The Brain, Good Idea Bad Idea, Chicken Boo, Slappy Squirrel, Hello Nurse, and all the gang. We also talked about just how impressive Rob Paulsen’s rendition of Yakko’s World is, being scared of Ren & Stimpy, renting games from Xtra-Vision, and the Commodore 64. 

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Hello there. Our first live show at the Dublin Podcast Festival is less than a week away and we just want to make sure that you know about it. If you want to know why it took us eight minutes to tell you that our guest is Maria Doyle Kennedy, she’ll be talking about The Wizard Of Oz, and it’s in the Workman’s Club* on September 27th on a double-bill with The Alison Spittle Show then you’ll just have to listen. 

Tickets are on sale now. Hopefully we’ll see you there. We’ll have badges. You can probably have a badge if you come but we don’t have enough badges for everybody because we’re PROFESSIONALS. 

*The venue has changed from Tivoli Theatre to The Workman’s Club due to unforeseen circumstances. 

Juvenalia is sponsored by the March For Choice which leaves from the Garden Of Remembrance, Dublin at 2pm, September 30th. Repeal The 8th.  

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Octocon chairperson Jan Ní Shúilleabháin joined us to talk about her love of Frank Herbert’s Dune in all its forms especially the 1984 David Lynch movie. She basically gave us a crash course in sci-fi appreciation and her enthusiasm was infectious. Jan also told us a bit about the history of Irish cons and about her role in the upcoming Octocon which takes place on the 6th, 7th, and 8th of October in the Camden Court Hotel, Dublin 2. 

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We’re doing our first live show with super special guest Maria Doyle Kennedy of Orphan Black, Sing Street, the Commitments, and a gazillion other things. It’s a double-bill with The Alison Spittle Show in the Tivoli Theatre on September 27th as part of the Dublin Podcast festival and we’d love to see you there. Tickets are on sale NOW 

This episode is sponsored by the March For Choice which leaves from the Garden Of Remembrance, Dublin at 2pm, September 30th. Repeal The 8th.  

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