*at a party at the weekend*
Man: so what do you investigate in your podcast?
Me: oh, it’s not a true crime podcast. It’s kind of a nostalgia pop culture thing.
Man: *doubtfully* so you don’t solve *any* crimes in it?
We've had a little bit of a tumultuous year with Ellen moving away and us moving the podcast from HeadStuff to Tall Tales so it's really. REALLY heartwarming to see that the show is growing and that there are more of you listening than ever before. Sincerely, thank you.
If you’re writing a list of best podcasts of the year, remember that only one show had CMAT talking about giving herself a head injury every night as a child so she could time travel and seduce The Beatles
We have a massive double-length episode about Skins coming out on Thursday. Subscribe to Juvenalia in your podcast app of choice to hear tales of our grimiest teenage parties
Juvenalia is not currently the number one podcast in Ireland with a huge, devoted fanbase, thriving patreon, and wealthy sponsors, but we are ready for when it is
Hello, we recorded an episode yesterday but then Alan accidentally watched CNN all night so didn't get a chance to edit it. It'll be up tomorrow.
@CassieLorraine
joined us and we talked about Sister Act II, choirs, and The Bends
We believe in transparency here at Juvenalia so here’s a quick breakdown of how we spend our patreon money
• Website hosting costs
• Transcriptions
• Hiring Cate Blanchett to re-record
@griffski
’s parts in her best Sarah impression
• “sundries”
that tweet that said all writers should be enemies was obviously wrong; as
@griffski
says, books are kept on a shelf, not a pedestal. HOWEVER, all other podcasts are our enemy especially
@DiveCreep
It's three years since we released the first episode of Juvenalia! 72 episodes of sound people talking to us about things they like. Thank you to everybody who's ever listened to an episode or told a friend about us. We appreciate it all.
91 | A Series Of Unfortunate Events with
@ronronzo
Rachel O'Neill joins us to talk about Lemony Snicket's series of perfectly constructed clockwork gothic orphan tormentors
Hello everybody. We’re delighted to announce that
@AndreaCleary_
is making the leap from Care Bear Cousin and is now a full official co-host of Juvenalia with
@alan_maguire
and
@griffski
! Exciting times!
Now for some big news: We've decided to leave the HeadStuff Podcast Network and join
@CassieLorraine
's Tall Tales network. We're very excited to work with Cassie and the rest of the podcasts at Tall Tales and we'd like to thank HeadStuff for everything they've done for us
Carly Monardo from
@of_rude
talked to us for a long time about Final Fantasy VII and it was v cool! Topics covered include: Asking for The Sephiroth at the hairdresser without asking for The Sephiroth, pre-social media fandoms, and V-V-V-Vincent Valentine
We're DELIGHTED to announce our first live show of 2019 will be on March 13th in the Studio Theatre in the Dún Laoghaire Lexicon! Our guest is going to be
@SarahDavisGoff
, we're going to talk about something cool, it'll be a whole thing!
Tomorrow on Juvenalia: We finally do a Harry Potter episode!
@BigDirtyFry
joins us to talk about the boy wizard and we don't try compare him to anything in contemporary politics even once! Subscribe now to make it "appeariamus"(harry potter joke, you get it) in your podcast app!
99 | Gossip Girl with
@NaoiseDolan
Bestselling author of Exciting Times, Naoise Dolan joins us to talk about Gossip Girl. It's a fascinating chat, recorded back in February when our hearts were light.
We’re recording our 50th episode LIVE in the Vintage Room in the Workman’s on April 25th and our special guest will be
@AnnieAtkins
! Annie is a graphic designer who’s worked on Isle Of Dogs, The Grand Budapest Hotel and loads of other stuff. We’re very excited.
It's episode 75! The diamond episode of Juvenalia.
@CassieLorraine
of The Creep Dive and Tall Tales joins us to talk about the show that singlehandedly kept the PVA glue industry going in the 90s, Art Attack!
Podcasts live and die by word of mouth. If you like Juvenalia, tell your friends. When we like something, we tend to assume that everybody else has already heard of it but that's not true! Tell people about the things you like, share your favs
Yes, this is a v important point. Everybody should know that Eartha Kitt had a threesome with James Dean and Paul Newman. I imagine they were alone in a room and someone said "history will never forgive us if we don't have a threesome" and the other two agreed
listened to the most recent
@Juvenalia_Pod
and I have two thoughts: number one is that I can’t believe that anyone can talk about eartha kitt for any length of time without mentioning that she had a threesome with James dean and Paul Newman
We recorded our first in-studio epsidoes since February today!
@griffski
and
@cmatbaby
had a full-on shouting argument about which Beatle each member of One Direction would be and we convinced
@NicLiamo
she’s a hardcore gamer. It’s good to be back
so, today's episode is the eighty-fifth regular episode of Juvenalia but if you include our bonus episodes and specials then it's actually episode 100! We'll save the proper celebrations for thirty weeks from now for real episode 100 but today we just wanted to say thanks
Everybody has that one thing they were obsessed with when they were kids. The thing that was THEIR thing. Juvenalia is a podcast where we invite interesting people to tell us about their thing, how they felt about it then, and how they feel about it now.
We have a new episode on Thursday,
@tangeriona
will be joining us to talk about Disney's Hercules! It was an extremely fun one so subscribe on your podcast app if you haven't already
Hello friends. We've had a rolling season of scheduling disasters so let's pretend we said we were having a little hiatus for January and meet back here in a couple of weeks
Ok so, Bosco, the subject of our current episode, listened to the episode about them and liked it. Our next episode is about Oprah. Can we go two for two? Stay tuned
New episode this Thursday!
@oneilllo
talks to us about Enid Blyton's the Magic Faraway Tree. In the meantime, there's a whole backlog of Juvenalia for you to check out
Our 100th episode is out tomorrow!! We talk about things from the years we were born like Spinal Tap and Barney and Red Dwarf and Roger Rabbit and The Replacements! It'll be a good time
100 | It's Episode 100!
@alan_maguire
,
@griffski
, and
@incogellen
talk about their favourite things from the years they were born. It's the first time all three of the OG Juvenalia Three have been on the same episode since the 2018 Christmas Special. Enjoy
83 | Hercules with
@tangeriona
Ríona Gallagher joins us to talk about the hidden gem of late 90s Disney films with maybe the best soundtrack of all time
Just realised today is the fifth anniversary of our first episode! Five years of chats with sound people. In ordinary times we would have done a live show to celebrate but well, y’know. Please settle for this picture of our live show at the Dublin Podcast Festival in 2018
Cormac McCarthy: I've written a super-bleak book about a family trying to survive in conditions of unimaginable horror.
Marita Conlon-McKenna: Hold my beer.
177 | Hot Fuzz with Peter McGann
@peterjmcgann
returns to Juvenalia to enthuse wildly with
@alan_maguire
and
@griffski
about Edgar Wright, Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, and the very special thing they created
ok, our download stats on our old host got corrupted last year so I can't be totally sure but I *think* Juvenalia hit 100,000 all time downloads sometime in the last month! Yay us! thanks to anybody who ever checked out an episode or shared one with their friends
Juvenalia is four years old this week! AND it's been a year since we joined Tall Tales so to celebrate we've finally made a Juvenalia website. It's
It has all the things you'd expect a podcast website to have. We hope you like it
A HUGE congratulations to
@emiliepine
for winning An Post Irish Book Of The Year for her brilliant Notes To Self. Emilie was our guest at All Together Now back in August and it’s one of our favourite episodes ever
Apparently
@PillowQueeens
are going down so well in Iceland at the moment that Juvenalia got into their top 100 on the iTunes chart and
@broccolidoggo
’s episode charted in the individual episodes chart yesterday
We’re delighted to announce that our guest at
@ATNfestival
will be Emilie Pine! She’ll be talking to Sarah and Alan on Sunday evening in the spoken word area. We hope to see some of you there!
If you like Juvenalia, the podcast where an interesting guest talks about a bit of pop culture that they were obsessed with as a child, why not tell your friends about it? what are you, some kind of podcast hoarder? you can't keep the podcasts for yourself, they're in the cloud
Congratulations to our
@griffski
on becoming the seventh most influential podcaster in Ireland according to some weird metrics in bad newspaper we won’t be linking to!
92 | Florence Welch with
@BlaisinSquad
Laura-Blaise McDowell joins us to talk about all the ways in which Florence Welch is wonderful and also about moving to New York because of Patti Smith. It's a good un.
142 | Malcolm In The Middle with
@Aoife_Dooley
Folks, now more than ever, life is unfair, so we got Aoife Dooley to join us and talk about Malcolm In The Middle. Aoife's graphic novel Frankie's World is out TODAY. The podcast is in all the podcast places
165: Breaking the Magician's Code with Roger O'Sullivan
@RogerOSullivan
joins
@alan_maguire
and
@AndreaCleary_
to really figure out what the Masked Magician's whole deal was. This was a fun one, you should have a listen
156 | Adrian Mole with
@EmerTheScreamer
Emer McLysaght, co-writer of the Aisling books, joins us to talk about the life of Adrian Mole but particularly his Secret Diary. In all your podcast apps now.
Recorded two great, great episodes with
@ELangfordMusic
and
@BeingBla
yesterday! You’re gonna love em. (Alan stood under a light too much in the first one but it’s ok)
74 | Friends with
@aislingmkeenan
We finally did a Friends episode! We all had a lot to say because talking about Friends is kind of like talking about air or sleep for millennials
85 | The NME In The 80s with
@MrPaulDuane
Filmmaker Paul Duane joins us to talk about being influenced musically and politically by the NME and working with Bill Drummond on his new film Best Before Death
A thread of some of my (Alan's) favourite Juvenalia memories to commemorate 100 episodes and four years of Elite Podcasting. hopefully
@griffski
and
@incogellen
will add some too. 1/n
We mentioned this on our latest episode but it’s worth mentioning here too. We just hit 250,000 downloads! Thank you so much to anybody who’s ever given our little podcast a chance
153 | Jacqueline Wilson with Kirsty Capes
@kirstycapes
joins us to talk about the many, many works of Jacqueline Wilson, particularly The Story Of Tracy Beaker, The Illustrated Mum, and Lola Rose