Agitator

patreon.com/agitator Buy BRAZOS from Belle Point Press: https://bellepointpress.com/products/brazos Keep up with Justin Carter: https://juscarts.com/ Discussed:  Justin and Kelby's experiences and feelings of Brazoria County, Texas; poetry vs prose; "Not Meth"; escaping academia; sports journalism; fatherhood; devil possession and harvesting grave dirt from abandoned church cemeteries; Pokemon rap...

David Simmons and Kelby Losack are chopping it up about LIVES OF THE MONSTER DOGS by Kirsten Bakis . What separates humans from other animals? What is our purpose here? What is "alternative literature"? You read any good books lately? All this and more, on this episode of Agitator. Learn more about the Broken River crew: brokenriverbooks.com Follow David on X @WholeTimeDavid and IG @toppdogghill

On book tours, US vs UK publishing, Larry Correia vs The Great Gatsby , editing, bred from experience vs bred from institution, and how to measure artistic value. Buy Deliver Me  in the US: https://www.unnamedpress.com/books/book?title=Deliver+Me And in the UK: https://www.vervebooks.co.uk/bookpage.php?&isbn=9780857308610 Follow Elle on IG  and X @saderotica Subscribe to Fuck, Marry, Kill for...

Grant Wamack is the Wonderland award nominated author of MELANCHOLY’S FINEST,   BLACK GYPSIES,  and GOD’S LEFTOVERS . He pulls tarot cards, practices jiu jitsu, and smokes weed in Los Angeles. Follow his come-up at https://grantwamack.substack.com/ [[This episode is brought to you by Experience. Computer , slow radio about high tech. A podcast about aphantasia, creativity, and the imagination.]] W...

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Our boy JDO has resurrected to share the sauce on how he’s found the ultimate cure for writer’s block. We also give a syllabic breakdown on what’s coming up for Agitator: more craft talk, getting into the nuts and bolts of publishing and printing and marketing books. We also talk about the value of a niche audience and the dangers of networking with writers. And then we talk Trump and corrosive id...

Jared Klickstein  was born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1989 to heroin-addicted parents. He spent his teenage years outside of Oakland, California after being adopted by his aunt and uncle. He attended UC Santa Cruz where he got addicted to heroin himself, dropped out, and spent nearly ten years chronically homeless and addicted around the country. After a notorious run on Skid Row in Los Angeles a...

Charlene Elsby is a philosophy doctor and former professor whose books include  Hexis, Affect, Psychros, Agyny,   Musos,   Letters to Jenny Just After She Died, Bedlam, The Devil Thinks I'm Pretty, and  Violent Faculties . Her essays have appeared in Bustle Books and the LA Review of Books. https://charleneelsby.com/ Using her torture porn/mad scientist philosophical horror novel Violent Faculties...

Ryan Simón  is the one-man factory behind the avant-garde Americana sleaze/arts and culture mag American Vulgaria.  We talk about his inspiration for starting the magazine, what direction it's heading in now, and we get into the nuts and bolts of printing and designing magazines and books that stand on their own as gorgeous works of art. More on AMERICAN VULGARIA : https://americanvulgaria.com/ Su...

This is a further discussion on Park Chan-wook's The Sympathizer . Sort of. Topics discussed: the problem with art that sits on the fence, Downey Jr hijacking every project he's tied to, the watered-down osmosis of style, Jordan Peele and the state of horror, Mad Max, being ethnically ambiguous, how and why we love America, the death of Hollywood, in defense of nepotism, the devolution of rap, inv...

Writer, podcaster, and strategist (and musician, and inventor of solarpunk) Jay Springett  joins Kelby for this AGITATOR Z FINALE. Everything changes beyond this point, and what a way to end an era. We're talking Izumi Suzuki's incredible bizarro short story collection Hit Parade of Tears . Keep up with Jay: https://www.thejaymo.net/ Buy Hit Parade of Tears : https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/boo...

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At long last, the full uncensored/unabridged story of the life, philosophy, and vision of the ultimate rock 'n roll duo BOTCHED CHADIFICATION.  BUY THE CD: PUMP METAL | Botched Chadification ( bandcamp.com ) SUBSCRIBE TO AGITATOR: Agitator | The Only Freestyle Storytelling Podcast Starring Two Mystic Juggalo Weebs | Patreon GET BOTCHED This is an early release episode for patrons only.

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Jacob Everett , founder and editor-in-chief of the low life/high strangeness lit mag and indie press Apocalypse Confidential , joins Kelby to discuss the no-budget 1983 murder drone film Blood Beat . This episode's a deep dive into the inner workings of successfully running an independent press with some glimpses into the future of both APCON and Broken River. READ APOCALYPSE CONFIDENTIAL: apocaly...

In this special crossover episode with filmmakers/actors/hosts of the excellent //MOVIES podcast , we're talking Sam Levinson's Euphoria  -- why it's not what any of us thought it was, what it actually is, and what makes it great. Will we ever get a season 3? Which character deserves a spin-off? Is this a teen drama, music video, or gangster epic? Can two dudes hang out without one popping a boner...

We gon need a bigger stable for all this horsin' around. The Rare Candy boys join Kelby in mourning our brother JDO, who has gone off to his celestial Mormon heaven as depicted by Terrence Howard. 1x1=2. Snow on Tha Bluff. Haircuts with your mom. Meth lab on Zillow. Sam Forster's bestseller is just a throwback meme from 2016. The ending of The Sopranos. Tubi Originals. Playing like you hopped off...

Shouts out our boy. All love.

Rare Candy's Glen Rockney and our boy Kelby are tackling one of the greatest stories ever told: the Book of Exodus (also, The Prince of Egypt ). Was Moses tripping on psychedelics? How much of the Bible is autofiction? Is there a way to do this sincerely, or is it all blasphemy? Let the Catholic LARPer who has not even read the Bible cast the first stone. If you're following us and still sleeping...

A live review of Mario + Rabbids: Star of Hope. A look back on our favorite arcs of the podcast. Red-blooded Americans with Yakuza codes. The capitalist artist. The worst Marx brother. JDO says goodbye.

We're freestyling the concept and premise of a sprawling sword & sorcery/survival horror epic, after we diagnose the problems of today's youth, eulogize Steve Albini as much as he deserves it, pontificate better ways to approach open-world gaming than the endless side-questing and modifying, and discuss our favorite shows a little bit. Like this? Sign up for free or get bonus content for $5/mo...

We kick off the show talking shop and breaking down pretentiousness as laziness, then move into the current state of mediocrity in rap music and what makes Kendrick one of the worst to ever rock the mic. Also: who dissed Drake best? And "can I say it?" We miss you, DMX.

We talk about a lot of shit. Fallout vs Shogun. Some game called Gungeon something-something, sounds dope. Our kids are kicking it with us. We're back to our noisy roots. You love it, shut up.

On this episode: Miike's 2014 high school death game film As the Gods Will  + when one of the greats shows up to make something mediocre + the swinging pendulum of brilliance + perfect CGI + craft talk re: character development and form vs formula + what would've made this movie better + AN AGITATOR FILMS ANNOUNCEMENT ++ NEWS ABOUT THE IMPENDING SUMMER FOR THE SHOW.