198: The Chronicles Of Narnia with Janina Matthewson

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 is out now. Her Substack is rachelconnolly.substack.com. Both are excellent. Alan is @alan_maguire. Juvenalia is his main thing right now but he does a bit of standup sometimes too. Andrea  @AndreaCleary_. Her other podcasts are My Favourite Album With Andrea Cleary and The Nialler9 Podcast. Her newsletter is at https://andrea-cleary.ghost.io/ Thank you to Dee McDonnell for our artwork. We have a Patreon! You can get bonus episodes including our patreon-only show Started/Finished where we talk about the pop culture we started and finished recently. We also have some free lil bits of  merch. It's patreon.com/juvenalia This episode was produced by Alan. Juvenalia is a Tall Tales podcast. Thank you Cassie.

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 Symphonies is out now. It’s excellent, you’ll love it. Alan is @alan_maguire. Juvenalia is his main thing right now but he does a bit of standup sometimes too. Andrea  @AndreaCleary_. Her other podcasts are My Favourite Album With Andrea Cleary and The Nialler9 Podcast. Her newsletter is at https://andrea-cleary.ghost.io/ Thank you to Dee McDonnell for our artwork. This is episode 200 of Juvenalia. Thanks to everybody who’s listened to us over the years and to all of our amazing guests. We have a Patreon! You can get bonus episodes including our patreon-only show Started/Finished where we talk about the pop culture we started and finished recently. We also have some free lil bits of  merch. It's patreon.com/juvenalia This episode was produced by Alan. Juvenalia is a Tall Tales podcast. Thank you Cassie.

Singer-songwriter Callum Orr joins us to talk about Paul Verhoeven’s super-camp, super-violent satire of fascist propaganda Starship Troopers (1997). We talk about the difference between watching it for the first time as an adult and as a younger person, the effectiveness of the satire, we pick apart the imagery, we get deep on this thing. Callum is @callvm.orr. His debut album The Trials Of Knowing is out now. Alan is @alan_maguire. Juvenalia is his main thing right now but he does a bit of standup sometimes too. Andrea  @AndreaCleary_. Her other podcasts are My Favourite Album With Andrea Cleary and The Nialler9 Podcast. Her newsletter is at https://andrea-cleary.ghost.io/ Thank you to Dee McDonnell for our artwork. We have a Patreon! You can get bonus episodes including our patreon-only show Started/Finished where we talk about the pop culture we started and finished recently. We also have some free lil bits of  merch. It's patreon.com/juvenalia This episode was produced by Alan. Juvenalia is a Tall Tales podcast. Thank you Cassie.

Award-winning poet Jessica Traynor joins us to talk about 90’s alt-rock legends Babes In Toyland with some detours into their contemporaries Hole and Bikini Kill. We talk about female rage, taping late night MTV so you could watch in the next day, seeing your teenage heroes live, and lots lots more. Jessica Traynor is @JessicaTraynor6. You can find her most recent collection Pit LullabiesI at jessicatraynor.com Alan is ⁠@alan_maguire⁠. He does a bit of standup but Juvenalia is his main thing right now. Sarah is ⁠@griffski⁠. Her new novel Eat The Ones You Love is out April 2025. Her newsletter is at ⁠griffnotes.ghost.io⁠ Thank you to Dee McDonnell for our artwork. We have a Patreon! You can get bonus episodes including our fortnightly show Started/Finished where we talk about the pop culture we’ve started and finished recently. We also have some free lil bits of merch. It's ⁠patreon.com/juvenalia This episode was produced by Alan Maguire Juvenalia is a Tall Tales podcast. Thank you Cassie.

This is a big one. We had a little gap in our schedule so Alan & Andrea decided to get all of their feelings about Elliott Smith down in podcast form. We talk about that voice, those melodies, that guitar playing, the time he and Louis theroux interviewed each other for Select Magazine, his creative partnership with Jon Brion and so much more. Sidenote: consider this a kind of reverse trigger warning: we don’t talk about any details of Elliott Smith’s death or engage in any speculation around it in this episode. Here’s the Elliott Smith and Jon Brion show we mention https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PK4okHerWeI and here’s the Elliott Smith/Louis Theroux interview https://selectmagazinescans.monkeon.co.uk/?p=2571 Alan is @alan_maguire. Juvenalia is his main thing right now but he’s doing a bit of standup on July 19th with Rogue Comedy in Jarrz, Waterford. Andrea  @AndreaCleary_. Her other podcasts are My Favourite Album With Andrea Cleary and The Nialler9 Podcast. Her newsletter is at https://andrea-cleary.ghost.io/ Thank you to Dee McDonnell for our artwork. We have a Patreon! You can get bonus episodes including our patreon-only show Started/Finished where we talk about the pop culture we started and finished recently. We also have some free lil bits of  merch. It's patreon.com/juvenalia This episode was produced by Alan. Juvenalia is a Tall Tales podcast. Thank you Cassie.