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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.

Simon O'Connor of the Museum Of Literature Ireland joins us to talk about Twin Peaks. Simon and Sarah were both teenage Twin Peaks obsessives and they let it all out in this episode. We talked about the original series, Fire Walk With Me, season three, and just as many things in and around Twin Peaks and David Lynch as we could fit into the time we had.   You can find the Nicholas Jaar mix that Alan mentioned which starts with Angelo Badalamenti talking about writing Laura's Theme here. Simon is the director of MoLI. Their online shop is full of potential Christmas presents and the museum is an amazing place to visit too! 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.

Karyn Moynihan from the Sweet Valley High podcast Double Love returns to the podcast to talk about the 1993 video store staple Demolition Man. Alan and Karyn have seen it many, many times. Sarah just watched it for the first time. We have a lot to talk about. For instance, Sylvester's Stallone's neck: why is it so big? Why is seeing real things blow up more satisfying than seeing CG things blow up? Does Denis Leary know he's in a movie? and  lots more. Karyn is @redlemonader. You can, and should, find Double Love on all good podcast apps. 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.

Dublin rapper Nealo joins Alan and guest co-host Andrea Cleary to talk about his teenage love of pop punk. We talk about the supremacy of Blink 182, wishing you went to an American high school, the incelly vibe to a LOT of the lyrics, the differences between Dublin scene kids and rural scene kids, Blast, and a whole lot more. Listening note: Alan's dogs were in the room while he was recording so you can occasionally hear a soft bark or snore, sorry about that. Also this episode was recorded over zoom and everybody drifts a lil bit in and out of sync sometimes. We're not being rude and talking over each other, we're all just trying out best. Nealo is @NellydaSilla on Twitter. His debut album All The Leaves Are Falling is out Oct 30th.  Andrea is @AndreaCeary_. You can hear her on the Nialler9 podcast and subscribe to her newsletter at andreacleary.substack.com Alan is @alan_maguire. Juvenalia is his main thing. Juvenalia is @Juvenalia_Pod on twitter and @JuvenaliaPod on Instagram. We have a Patreon! It's patreon.com/juvenalia. Patrons get bonus episodes and other little bits and pieces too. Thank you to Dee McDonnell for our artwork. Juvenalia is a Tall Tales podcast

Writer and Podcaster Rosemary MacCabe joins Alan and Andrea to talk about an extremely divisive part of the Star Wars universe that is dear to Rosemary's heart, the Ewoks. We talk about the Ewok spinoff movies Caravan Of Courage and Battle For Endor and about how none of us would be good film critics. It's a nice time. Rosemary is @RosemaryMacCabe everywhere. She hosts the podcasts Not Without My Sister and How To Be Sound and she also has a hugely popular Patreon  Alan is @alan_maguire. Juvenalia is his main thing right now. Andrea is @AndreaCleary_. She co-hosts the Nialler9 podcast and her writing appears regularly in The Sunday Business Post among many others. You can find her new newsletter about playlists here This was our first episode back on Zoom and there was a lil technical hiccup with the audio which means you might find it a bit quiet in places. Sorry about that, the next one will be aurally dazzling.  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 

Best-selling author Louise O’Neill makes a triumphant return to Juvenalia to talk about the most unsettling children’s movie ever made: Return To Oz! It’s a weird one. Louise O’Neill’s new novel After The Silence is out now and it’s so good, everybody’s talking about it. 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 This episode was produced by Cassie Delaney. Thank you Cassie. 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

Pamela from Pillow Queens joins us to talk about the secretly beloved Grease 2. We talk about the weird Turn Everything Up To 11 energy of the film, the charisma of Michelle Pfeiffer, and RE-PRO-DUC-TION (reproduction). It was a blast. You can find Pamela on twitter @duurtvader. Pillow Queens’ debut album In Waiting is out September 25th and it’s going to be amazing 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 This episode was produced by Cassie Delaney. Thank you Cassie. 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

Conner Habib is an author, lecturer, sex workers' rights advocate and the host of Against Everyone with Conner Habib. He joined us to talk about the work of Clive Barker. Sarah and Alan were new to the world of Barker so we mostly stuck to two of his best-known works, Hellraiser and Candyman. We also touched on lots of other stuff though including Books Of Blood, gore  and discomfort, and the larger Hellraiser universe. It was a really interesting conversation and hopefully you'll all go check out Candyman because it's v v good.  Conner is on twitter @ConnerHabib. You can find his podcast, Against Everyone with Conner Habib and his other work at Patreon.com/connerhabib  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  This episode was produced by Cassie Delaney. Thank you Cassie.  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

Fair City’s Roxanna Nic Liam returns to Juvenalia to talk about another thing she was obsessed with when she was young and it’s a big one: Pokémon! We mostly stuck to the original 151 with a little bit of Pokémon Go thrown in for spice. We had fun, hope you do too!  Roxanna is @nicliamo on Twitter. You can see her on Fair City and just generally being sound and funny on twitter and Instagram.  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  This episode was produced by Cassie and Emma. Thank you Cassie and Emma.  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

Global pop sensation CMAT joins us to talk about The Beatles. CMAT had some STORIES for us about being a pre-teen Beatles fan and now you get to enjoy them too. CMAT is @cmatbaby on Twitter. CMAT is a global pop sensation. You can and should immediately find her stuff everywhere music is. Start with the video for Rodney. 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 This episode was produced by Cassie and Emma. Thank you Cassie and Emma. 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

Podcasting LEGEND Jen O’Dwyer returns to Juvenalia to talk about many 90s kids’ introduction to the wide world of European perversion: Eurotrash. We talk about camp, enthusiastic looking vs voyeurism, the return of eccentrics, and of course all the nudity that got us watching Eurotrash in the first place Jen O’Dwyer appears on The Creep Dive, Mother Of Pod, Vulture Club, and is a Rogue founder. 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 This episode was produced by Cassie and Alan. Thank you Cassie. 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