Juvenalia

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...