Agitator

Today we have Brad Kelly, the host of the Method and Madness podcast, on to talk about his new cosmic horror novel The Earthen Dark. It is one of JDO's favorite reads in recent memory. The boys discuss the process of writing the novel, its themes, the tarot, and how Story can be understood as a being or spirit that interacts with us. We also talk about Brad's ayahuasca experiences, haunted places,...

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Listen to E_DEATH on Spotify , YouTube , Bandcamp , and Apple . Order J David Osborne's Berserker Club HERE (ships mid-December). Order Kelby Losack's Texas Tea HERE (ships mid-December). Order Nicholas Rall's AFx8ccd HERE. As of now, you can watch Peep TV Show with English subtitles for free on YouTube .

Listen to the //MOVIES Podcast and keep an eye out for Mass State Lottery , now touring select theaters and coming soon to Blu-Ray. Cop you some Forgotten Genres, Movies, and LowRes merch HERE .

We're diving into how to sell books without clout or agents, the value of readers vs customers, and writing for an audience of many, one, or none. Free episode, spread the gospel. Get hundreds more episodes at patreon.com/agitator

Guillermo Del Toro's Frankenstein + IT: Welcome to Derry + Sydney Sweeny + Lil Ashtray + Greek Love

Agitator's very own Crichton scholar J David Osborne returns to the Rare Candy lab to talk about Michael Crichton’s Viking odyssey novel Eaters of The Dead (1976) and why we need to write fun books again. Subscribe to the Rare Candy Horse Feed for more Gain of Fiction, Psi-Ops, Bob's Red Pill, Coast to Coast, and much more.

Today, we're talmbout Toshiaki Toyoda's BLUE SPRING (2001). These kids ain't all right.

It's a triple crossover with GETTING LIT and BISTRO CALIFORNIUM talmbout the groundbreaking Legacy of Kain  video game series. Listen to Getting Lit  and Bistro Californium . Pre-order Gods Fare No Better

Tikeshi Kitano's 1993 surreal yakuza comedy Sonatine Follow film director/writer/actor Jay Karales on X @LowresWB , listen to //MOVIES - A Podcast About the Act of Cinema at patreon.com/lowres,  and pre-order JDO's cybergore epic Gods Fare No Better at ronintrash.bigcartel.com .

Talking piracy, AI, and other bullshit while waiting on our guest. For patrons only. Buy Gods Fare No Better  at ronintrash.bigcartel.com

A conversation about Seiji Tanaka 's 2025 Netflix joint Demon City  turns into a requiem for the haters, a sincerely thoughtful exploration into the psychology of traitors. We also get real about the struggles of parenting, how to engage with the opposition, and the art of discomfort. Masterful podcasting here. brokenriverbooks.com jdavidosborne.com kelbylosack.com

Wu Hao's FURY 12 HOURS (2024) + Nikhil Nagesh Bhat's KILL (2023) + character complexity on the bell curve of waterhead to sage + the Bruce Willis School for Forgetting How to Read + two Furbies going back and forth + zoomer cashiers. "A priest, a sheriff, and a racist walk into a supermarket. And there's a black guy. And boy, are my arms tired." brokenriverbooks.com jdavidosborne.com kelbylosack.c...

It's a gold rush of bars. So much quotable wisdom here, it would take a Dave Blunts sized t-shirt to fit it all. Our boa David Simmons, favorite writer of the band Uniform, hops on about an hour and a half in to join the craft talk and marketing strategies, the state and future of all of the media industries, the value of hobbyists, addiction, what's coming up from Broken River, and basically ever...

It's our boy Grant Wamack's birthday. We've compiled a few classic hits - mostly everything featuring Grant before 2024 (no reason besides it was already long enough and ends perfectly as-is). Happy birthday, Grantly. We love you. Episodes in order: The World of Kanako  (6/16/22) Berserk Vol. 22-26  (8/4/22) The Last Ronin  (12/29/22) Selling Books Out the Back of Your Trunk  [also ft. David Simmo...

Chopping it up with the homie Banjer Jack on everything from building guitars, Sacred Harp singing, and backwoods time warps to Destiny's Child, de-normalizing the weird, and the event we all lived through that shall never be forgotten. We also get deep into talking bout God, the church, animism, and what being Christian means to us. Follow Banjer Jack on X @stupidfirst Support the show and access...

Matt Sini, author and host of Getting Lit , joins us for the second (we missed a year or two) AGACITY ATORDS, where we round up and encapsulate our favorite art and biggest takeaways from the year.

Making Christianity metal again while talking bout the Highlander  franchise, especially Yoshiaki Kawajiri's anime interpretation, with special guest Detective Wolfman , host of Bloody Pulp  and On the Beat .   Check out Wolfman's writing HERE . 

Talking the 2021 documentary A Glitch In the Matrix , Alien: Romulus , and urethral reconstructive surgery with author Michael Tichy. Find Michael on Substack @emptywrites  and buy his books through Castaigne Publishing .

It's the holidays, and we're spending it with the family. The Rare Candy and Agitator boys are in the cave of the red-headed giant chopping it up about Cormac McCarthy's alleged secret muse , Aaron Gwyn , audiobooks counting as reading, the end of cancel culture, aliens from Atlantis, Columbine and Vegas and Sandy (oh, my!), interplanetary travel, Elon Musk, caring vs not caring what other artists...

We're talking William Gibson's Agency  and the Mike Tyson vs Jake Paul fight with prolific author ,  essayist , and host of the Wolf podcast , E Rathke . If you came here from the Wolf podcast, welcome! This is the uncut, uncensored version of our Agency  episode on Wolf.

For anyone wondering why we won.

Tavora Lea's Pain System + Sleep Token [Guest: Tavora Lea ]

Talking Terrifier, Terrifier 2, The Substance , construction, making money off writing, labels and genres, doing the Trump weave, indie publishing insider secrets, Logan Berry's design-heavy books and theatrical plays, and more. Find Logan Berry on X @lgnbrry  and at https://logan-berry.com/

Kelby is drunk, JDO really fucked with Jang Jae-hyun's Svaha  and Kevin Ko's Incantation , normal people are reacting honestly to the indie garbage we've been hating on for years, the concept of written language is as odd as algebra when you think about it, and God's not dead (but hell is fake). This one is for patrons only. More on our writing at brokenriverbooks.com