Juvenalia

Welcome to part two of our special April/May 2017 Titanic Extravaganza which is totally a thing. In this episode, Leonardo Di Caprio himself is joined by his pals, Tobey Maguire, Kevin Connolly, and Lukas Haas to look back at the film that kind of ruined his life for a while, Titanic. In the last episode, Alan, Ellen, and Stacy talked all about the film as fans but this time we’ll be hearing from the people who actually lived it. We’ll delve deep into Leo’s memories and we’ve also obtained exclusive audition footage, deleted scenes, and much much more. Maybe some special guests will pop by? Who knows? 

Assistant to Mr Di Caprio – Peter McGann

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Stacy Grouden is a writer and the film editor of State.ie. She joined Alan and Ellen to talk about the film that will forever define 1998, Titanic. We talked about how Rose is an overlooked feminist action hero, the wonder of Billy Zane, Leonardo Di Caprio’s extraordinarily pretty face, the Titanic museum, the real Jack Dawson, mo-cap wives, the 2012 re-release, the schoolyard rumour mill, more talk about handsome men, Revolutionary Road, what the cast are up to now, and lots lots more. 

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Cethan Leahy is a writer, filmmaker, and illustrator. He joins Alan and Sarah to talk about the eccentric American tabloid the Weekly World News. Along the way we take some detours to talk about Irish myths. It’s nice. The Weekly World News was kind of amazing and weird and it was lots of fun to revisit it and Ed Anger and Bat Boy and all the WWN gang. 

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Eva Short of Silicon Republic joins Alan & Sarah to talk about Nintendo’s Animal Crossing. Did Animal Crossing prepare a generation for a lifetime of debt while working a series of menial jobs with friends who come and go without ever forging a real connection? Eva Short says yes. She also tells us all about being a pre-teen in a picture-perfect Californian town, using games to explore depression and poverty, and generally makes us want to play farming simulators forever and ever. 

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Ciara Knight is a comedian and writer for Joe.co.uk. She’s very funny and we’re big fans of her and you should be too. She came into the dilapidated bunker where we record Juvenalia to talk about Sabrina, The Teenage Witch with Alan and Ellen. We talk about family secrets, terrible food museums, mitosis, Harvey, Salem, Violent Femmes, Sabrina’s best best friend, Britney guest spots, Daniel Bedingfield, Paul Blart: Mall Cop, celebrity noses, Paul Feig, and other things. It’s a fun time you guys. 

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Lisa Coen is one half of Tramp Press. We’re big fans of Tramp Press here at Juvenalia so we were delighted when Lisa took a break from the world of high literature to talk to us about her love of Stephen King. As you might imagine, it took us a while to get through it all. Lisa knows so, so much about Stephen King, it was a joy to listen to her for nearly two hours. Sarah went into the episode not caring about Stephen King and came out a convert, clutching a copy of IT. You probably will too. We’ll leave you to it. 

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Hi. There’s a very good chance this is your first time listening to Juvenalia. We hope you like it. We talk to interesting people about pieces of pop culture that were important to them when they were children. In this episode, Alan and Sarah talk to Sara Quin from Tegan and Sara about Madonna’s Truth Or Dare tour documentary and all kinds of things that spring from that. We were very excited to talk to Sara and she was even more of a joy than we could have hoped. We hope you enjoy it as much as we did. 

If you’re listening to this when it comes out then Tegan and Sara are playing in Vicar Street this Sunday February 19th and you should go, it’ll be great. If you liked this episode of Juvenalia maybe you’d consider subscribing on the podcast app of your choice and possible even leave a review? It’s ok if you don’t. There are a lot of podcasts, you can’t subscribe to them all, you’d get nothing done. 

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HELLO! It’s a bonus episode of Juvenalia. We’re delighted to present the pilot episode of Movieboyz, a very special podcast starring some of the biggest boyz in Hollywood.

Alan and Ellen were joined by comedian Liam Nugent and Fr. Declan Quigg of the Film Palz podcast to talk about The Exorcist. Things went awry. Truths were revealed. We all learned a lot about ourselves and each other. It’s kind of about The Exorcist and kind of about trendy loolas and kind of about The Godfather and kind of about Liam’s mam. We hope you like it. 

You can hear more from Fr. Quigg and occasionally Liam Nugent on the Sunday Sermon podcast.

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Juvenalia original artwork by Dee McDonnell

Roe McDermott is the Sex & Sexuality columnist for The Dublin Inquirer, a film critic for Hot Press, and a Fulbright scholar. Somehow, we convinced her to come on our podcast to talk about Wolfgang Petersen’s 1984 children’s fantasy classic The NeverEnding Story. Roe joined Sarah and Alan to talk youth, Trump, depression, feminism, rockbiters, safe spaces, Pantigate, and luck dragons, and we address the most important question of our time: Is Twitter actually Fantasia? The hour just flew by. 

Hello if you’re joining us for the first time because of a list you may have seen us on. Hopefully you’ll stick around. If you like us maybe consider subscribing and leaving a review? Also, Sarah’s AMAZING novel Spare And Found Parts is out now so you should buy it and enjoy it as much as I did.

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Juvenalia original artwork by Dee McDonnell