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The Mistletoe Inn is the heartwarming tale of a jilted writer who goes to a writer's retreat to see if she has what it takes and finds love, acclaim, and herself along the way. It stars Alicia Witt and David Alpay and we liked it a whole lot. The Mistletoe Inn was written by Michael Nourse based on the book by Richard Paul Evans and was directed by Alex Wright. Our chosen charity for this episode is the Dublin Rape Crisis Centre. Please send some money their way this Christmas. Ellen co-hosts Juvenalia with Alan and is @incogellen on Twitter. Find Jeanne and Alan on Twitter @jeannedesutun and @alan_maguire. Jeanne's newsletter is here If you like Roast Chestnuts then please follow us on Twitter, subscribe, and consider rating and/or reviewing us on your local podcast app. And tell your friends, that’s the best thing. Original artwork by Dee McDonnell Theme Music by Daniel McAuley This episode was produced by Alan + Brian
Your ex – the one who doesn’t like you as much as you like them and knows it – sends a “you up?” text at 11.32pm. Should you not pick up the phone… or, instead of replying, why not practice your Irish on Duolingo instead? The popularity of Duolingo’s Irish course flies in the face of critics of the language and has been a huge encouragement to those involved in the promotion of Irish. How can we capitalise on this interest? In this week’s episode, Darach and Peadar are joined by Alan Maguire and Ellen Tannam from Headstuff’s Juvenalia Podcast. Alan and Ellen have agreed to give Duolingo’s Irish course a go and report back on what they’ve learnt. It’s a tale of cats on turtles, inappropriate koalas, owlsplaining, film references and more crabs than you can shake a stick at. There are chats about new words and gender identity in anthromorphic creatures too! You can (and should) check out Juvenalia here: https://www.headstuff.org/juvenalia/ --- Contact the show at https://twitter.com/motherfocloir or email us at motherfocloir@headstuff.org.
Karyn Moynihan of Double Love joins Alan and Ellen to talk about the truly, truly, truly outrageous Jem And The Holograms. We talk music, outfits, makeup, The Misfits, gender, diversity, all of that good Juvenalia stuff. Enjoy Ellen writes for Silicon Republic. Alan mostly does Juvenalia but he does standup sometimes too. Follow us all on Twitter! Karyn Moynihan (@redlemonader) Ellen Tannam (@incogellen) Alan Maguire (@alanmaguire) Juvenalia (@JuvenaliaPod) Like Juvenalia on Facebook! We're @juvenaliapod on Instagram. We're everywhere now. If you like Juvenalia and would like us to succeed in life then consider rating and/or reviewing us on your local podcast app. And tell your friends, that’s the best thing. Juvenalia original artwork by Dee McDonnell This episode was produced and edited by Brian + Alan
We had a scheduling mix-up so Alan and Ellen sat down and had a chat about the thing that they’d pick if they were a Juvenalia guest, The Simpsons. This is not a rigorous history of The Simpsons, we jump around a lot and probably get things wrong but this is OUR Simpsons so let us have it. Happy New Year. We have zero solid plans for what’s happening with Juvenalia this year but we’re sure it’ll be very exciting and good. This episode is sponsored by Just Eat Ellen writes for Silicon Republic so go there and read her stuff. Juvenalia is Alan’s main thing but if you’re still feeling Christmassy then you could listen to his limited run made-for-TV Christmas movies podcast with Jeanne Sutton that has now ended, Roast Chestnuts. Relevant Twitter accounts for this episode: Ellen Tannam (@incogellen) Alan Maguire (@alan_maguire) Juvenalia (@Juvenalia_Pod) If you like Juvenalia and would like us to succeed in life then consider rating and/or reviewing us on your local podcast app. And tell your friends, that’s the best thing. Juvenalia original artwork by Dee McDonnell This episode was produced and edited by Brian + Alan
Journalist and podcaster Ellen Tannam joins Alan and Jeanne for the last episode of this series of Roast Chestnuts. The gang talk about 2017’s The Perfect Christmas Present, the heartwarming tale of a man who can find the perfect present for anyone and a woman who’s just moved across the country to be with a boyfriend that she’s kind of meh about. He finds himself getting too close to his latest client ( the woman we just mentioned) and everything he thought he knew begins to unravel. Will he realise that the real perfect Christmas present is love before it’s too late? Spoiler alert: Yes. The Perfect Christmas Present was written by Blaine Chiapetta, directed by Blair Hayes, and stars Sam Page, Tara Holt, Emily Peterson, and Sam Guinan-Nyhart. Follow Ellen on Twitter here! She’s the best. Also listen to her on Juvenalia with Alan and read her articles on Silicon Republic. Find Jeanne and Alan on Twitter here: Jeanne Sutton (@jeannedesutun) Alan Maguire (@alan_maguire) and the podcast itself (@RoastChestnuts_) Thank you so much to everyone who’s paid any attention at all to series one of Roast Chestnuts. We appreciated every twitter reply, review, nod, everything. We’ll be back next year so keep us in your podcast apps…and your hearts. Original artwork by Dee McDonnell Theme Music by Daniel McAuley This episode was produced by Brian and edited by Alan Podchaser: cc468714d352a097fb04c4dd2c425524
Stephen Colfer of Dreamgun and the Dreamgun Film Reads podcast joins Alan and Ellen to talk about 2000’s The Legend Of Zelda: Majora’s Mask. We talk about the weird loneliness of Majora’s Mask, loft living, ludonarrative dissonance, watching your friends play computer games, official console magazines, Pokemon tournaments, and loads of other stuff. Alan has another podcast on the HeadStuff Podcast Network running until Christmas. It’s called Roast Chestnuts. He reviews a made for TV Christmas film with Jeanne Sutton and a special guest every week. If you like Juvenalia, you’ll like Roast Chestnuts. Relevant Twitter accounts for this episode: Stephen Colfer (@stephenpip) Ellen Tannam (@incogellen) Alan Maguire (@alan_maguire) Juvenalia (@Juvenalia_Pod) If you like Juvenalia and would like us to succeed in life then consider rating and/or reviewing us on your local podcast app. And tell your friends, that’s the best thing. Juvenalia original artwork by Dee McDonnell This episode was produced and edited by Brian + Alan
Rebecca Keane is a standup comedian, writer, and excellent Twitter person. She joined us to talk about the colossus of 90s Saturday evening entertainment, Stars In Their Eyes. We covered all the important topics like the niceness of Matthew Kelly and the bleakness of the intro videos. We brainstormed who we’d be if we ever got the chance to be on it and we managed to shoehorn in an impressive number of Drag Race references. Hope you like it! Relevant Twitter accounts for this episode: Rebecca Keane (@rbcakn) Ellen Tannam (@incogellen) Alan Maguire (@alan_maguire) Juvenalia (@Juvenalia_Pod) If you like Juvenalia and would like us to succeed in life then consider rating and/or reviewing us on your local podcast app. And tell your friends, that’s the best thing. Juvenalia original artwork by Dee McDonnell This episode was produced by Brian
Well we did it. We did a live show at the Dublin Podcast Festival. We did a quiz that went on slightly longer than planned and then we talked to singer and actor Maria Doyle Kennedy of The Commitments, Orphan Black, The Tudors, Dexter, Father Ted, and loads more about The Wizard Of Oz with some detours along the way to talk about mermaids, ghosts, Billie Holiday, and Maria’s directorial debut A Different Kind Of Day, before we finished with a song from Maria and her husband Kieran (who is a lovely man) from Maria’s self-titled new album which is available now. As you can hear from the episode we were delighted to meet Maria and do a live episode so thanks to everyone who came and thanks to HeadStuff and Aiken for organising a podcast festival and letting us be a part of it. Thank you also to everyone at The Workman’s Club who made it happen and to Sarah Garvey for looking after us. Relevant Twitter accounts for this episode: Maria Doyle Kennedy (@mariadkennedy) Ellen Tannam (@incogellen) Alan Maguire (@alan_maguire) Juvenalia (@Juvenalia_Pod) If you like Juvenalia and would like us to succeed in life then consider rating and/or reviewing us on your local podcast app. And tell your friends, that’s the best thing. Join The HeadStuff Podcast Network on Facebook Credits Juvenalia original artwork by Dee McDonnell This episode was recorded by Sarah Garvey and James @ The Workman’s and produced by Brian
The Journal’s Aoife Barry, writer and podcaster Ellen Tannam, DJ and writer Conor Behan and senior clinical psychologist Mark Smyth joined us at Banter recently for an enthralling conversation about online behaviour. The question for our panel was just why negative comments, offensive remarks and downright nasty and abusive reactions have become the norm in our social media timelines. Our four panelists came up with some great theories and ideas about why this is so - and what can be done to change this state of affairs.
In Episode 31 – recorded at HeadStuff HQ – Alison chats with fellow podcasters Ellen Tannam and Sarah Griffin, of Juvenalia fame. They talk about feminist saints, wanting money for making art and naming chip toppings after themselves. Ellen Tannam is a freelance writer and editor whose work has been featured on The Pool, The […] La entrada Ellen Tannam & Sarah Griffin | The Alison Spittle Show #31 se publicó primero en Headstuff.
Oh My God What A Complete Aisling co-author Emer McLysaght joined Alan Maguire and Ellen Tannam to talk about Jurassic Park – the movie and the book, palaeontology, transition year work experience, the importance of posters, Sam Neill, Jeff Goldblum, Laura Dern, Lex, early 90s knock off merchandise, phone covers, entering competitions in women’s magazines, Gilmore Girls, and loads more. It’s a fun hour. The fantastic twitter account we were talking about near the end is @TheTimMurphy. Ok, see you next time! Bye! Follow Juvenalia on Twitter Juvenalia original artwork by Dee McDonnell This episode was produced by Alan Bennett
Giles Brody of The Mess Around and The Sunday Sermon Podcast talks to Alan and Ellen Tannam about Ghostbusters. At least that was the plan. It turned into more of a Ghostbusters-themed chat. We enjoyed it though, hopefully you will too. We talked about a lot of things including bingo playing taxi drivers, Eddie Murphy, Nas, John Belushi, Animal House, Michael Cera, Be Here Now, Crystal Skull Vodka, The House of Blues, Giles’s New University, Horses, Rick Moranis is sound, Ellen Hates Garry Shandling, celebrity atheism, Bill Murray several times in various ways, Groundhog Day, Harold Ramis, A Tom Cruise Film That I Refuse To Check The Name Of, creative partnerships, A phonecall from Sarah Silverman, meeting your heroes, Thom Yorke, funny people with guns, Micallef, Donegal People, the real reason Michael Collins was killed, De Valera, Cathal Brugha is hardcore, army friends, short men, Home Alone, visa issues, Problem Child 2, the new Ghostbusters movie, and loads of other bits. If you’ve read this far then why not subscribe to Juvenalia on iTunes or Stitcher, maybe even leave a review? Or not, it’s fine, I don’t want to be a burden. Juvenalia original artwork by Dee McDonnell
Welcome to the first of the Juvenalia minisodes. In this minisode, Alan Maguire and Ellen Tannam do a dramatic reading of chapter one of R.L. Stine’s Point Horror classic, Beach Party. More chapters will follow in future minisodes. Alan and Ellen have never read Beach Party and are excited to see where this all leads. Not much more to say about this one really. Enjoy. Juvenalia original artwork by Dee McDonnell
Alan Maguire and Ellen Tannam talk to writer Sarah Maria Griffin about a film that was important to her as a teenager, The Fifth Element. Questions asked and answered in this episode include: Is The Fifth Element a noir? Who would we cast in a gender-swapped The Fifth Element? Is Ruby Rhod a queer icon? Is Bruce Willis a hot dad? Could The Fifth Element be made today? Is it weird and cool that Ellen and Sarah had never met before this episode but have something very important in common? How did Sarah turn some of the issues with being a Woman Who Likes Sci-Fi on their head while writing her first novel Spare And Found Parts? Is there really any need to watch Breaking Bad or True Detective? How strong are Alan’s keratin levels? Also, Jean Paul Gaultier, Bruce Willis’s Disney Sex Thriller, Zelda, Twin Peaks, home cinemas built by dads, CAPITALISM, and loads more. We had a Very Good Chat as they call it in formal chat circles. That’s the official term for it. I checked. This is the first episode of Juvenalia. If you enjoyed it then why not subscribe on iTunes or Stitcher or similar? We’ve got some very cool, interesting people coming in to talk about pop culture that was important to them when they were young in upcoming episodes including Damon Blake, Jeanne Sutton, Sinéad Burke, Giles Brody, Emer McLysaght, Louise Bruton, and lots of other people that Alan follows on Twitter and wanted an excuse to hang out with briefly in real life. Ok, thanks for listening. bye for now, see you soon. Juvenalia original artwork by Dee McDonnell Mixed and edited by Alan Bennett