Juvenalia

Mar 26 2025 234 ep. 59 mins 3k

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Everybody has that one thing they were obsessed with when they were young. Juvenalia is an Irish podcast where interesting people talk to Alan Maguire, Andrea Cleary, and Sarah Maria Griffin about the bit of pop culture that they were obsessed with when they were young, how they felt about it then and how they feel about it now. It's nice, you'll like it.

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207: Kate Nash's Made Of Bricks with Maria Kelly

Mar 26 2025 50 mins

Singer-songwriter Maria Kelly is back to talk to us about Kate Nash’s 2007 debut album Made Of Bricks. We talk about Kate Nash’s songwriting, production choices, her appeal to teenage girls, Foundations, Foundations, Foundations. Also Alan accidentally repeats a story he told the last time Maria was on the show.Maria is @mariakellymusic. Her fantastic new album Waiting Room is

Patreon Preview - Severance Season 2 Finale Reaction

Mar 22 2025 9 mins

Hello, here's the first ten minutes of Alan and Andrea's reaction to the season 2 finale of Severance. The full 95 minute episode is available for our Slammer-level patrons over on Patreon.Enjoy!

206: Hackers with Julie Hough

Mar 13 2025 71 mins

HACK THE PLANET! $p@gB011(Julie Hough of HAVVK and PostLast) is back and she’s brought us something special, 1995’s Hackers. She joins Steve Buffers (Alan) and Em@il (Andrea) to talk about the music, the fashion, the rollerblades, that once scene where Fisher Stevens skitches on a limo for no reason, and lots lots more.Julie is @julie_hawk. You can hear her in HAVVK and PostLas

205: Tegan And Sara with Kelly Earley

Feb 19 2025 62 mins

We’re back baby! Back with a bang because Irish internet legend Kelly Earley is here to talk about how important Tegan And Sara were to her as a young lesbian. We talk about Tumblr, treatong albums like haircuts, JoJo Siwa, Yearncore, and finding community on the internet. We’re happy to be back, we’re happy you’re here.Kelly is @earley. Her Substack is Kelly’s Rubbish.Al

Christmas 2024! Gremlins & Miracle On 34th Street

Dec 17 2024 74 mins

Hey! We’re back! Alan has never seen Miracle On 34th Street, Andrea has never seen Gremlins… until now. We’re talking about Gizmo, we’re talking about Phoebe Cates’s inappropriate Christmas stories, we’re tsalking about Mara Wilson and Richard Attenborough. All that good stuff. Thanks for sticking around, see you in 2025! Alan is @alan_maguire. Juvenalia is his main thi

204: Ghostwatch (1992) with Nick Roche

Oct 19 2024 71 mins

On Halloween Night 1992, the BBC aired Ghostwatch, which purported to be a live investigation into a house and family that had been plagued by poltergeist activity. The studio segments were hosted by Michael Parkinson, while children’s presenter Sarah Greene explored the house and interviewed the family at the center of the haunting. Things started to go very wrong and the show e

203: Autumn Recs 24

Oct 02 2024 56 mins

Hey there, Alan and Andrea have some recommendations for you now that autumn has properly hit. They’ve got an album and three TV shows. We say recommendations but you’ve definitely heard of at least two of these already. The things are:Hayley Heynderickx - I Need To Start A Garden (with some bonus chat about Cat Cylde)Frasier (told you you’d heard of some of them already)Gilm

202: Brainiac: Science Abuse

Sep 19 2024 56 mins

Happy Bisexuality Awareness Week! To celebrate, award winning food TikTok/Instagram person Sian Conway joined us to talk about Brainiac: Science Abuse. If you know you know. We talked all about our school experiences of science, Richard “The Hamster“ Hammond, and of course, Jon Tickle walking across a swimming pool full of custard. We’d also forgotten quite how sexist the sho

201: The Fox And The Hound with Rachel Connolly

Sep 04 2024 56 mins

Writer Rachel Connolly joins us to talk about Disney’s The Fox And The Hound (1981). We’re asking all the big questions this episode, questions like: why does Disney keep making sexy foxes? How much, if any, moral instruction do children take from the media they consume? Did the worm in Snow White have a face? And many more. Rachel is @RachelConnoll14. Her debut novel Lazy City

200: Buffy The Vampire Slayer with Kate Nash

Aug 21 2024 66 mins

Musician and actress Kate Nash joins us for our 200th episode as we take another run at Buffy The Vampire Slayer. Kate is a Buffy mega-fan so we had plenty to talk about. Things like Spike, Angel, femininity, The Body, a defence of Xander, Band Candy, and Kate’s live performance of the entirety of Once More With Feeling in 2012. Kate is @KateNash. Her latest album 9 Sad Symphonie