Agitator

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  

Keeping film brain out of literature. Anti-adaptation. Not all content is art. How to stop the Joker. ODDITY. PULSE. Books about cultivation and dragons. Update/teaser on publishing Adam Lehrer's next novel. What makes great art. Shop talk. Fences and parking lots. Who will save you from drowning? More on our writing: brokenriverbooks.com

The whitest Agitators you know (JDO and Eddy Rathke) bring you this episode in Kelby's absence. Talking: the pros and cons of ****, Tsutomu Nihei's Tower Dungeon , the Chinese genres Wuxia and Xianxia, Wuxiaworld,  a reminder to leave the writing community, book clubs with HVAC techs, cultivation novels, what non-writers are looking for from writing, and more. Subscribe to Eddy's Substack: radical...

Kelby and JDO discuss Takashi Miike's Lumberjack the Monster , Jeremy Saulnier's Rebel Ridge , and Tim Burton's Beetlejuice Beetlejuice  + the return of oil paintings as cover art, masculine rites of passage, grifters vs doers, being red-pilled vs just being normal, assassination attempts, and plenty of craft, marketing, and publishing talk. We're so back. brokenriverbooks.com

Troy James Weaver is the author of Witchita Stories , Temporal , Visions , Marigold,   and   Selected Stories . He lives in Wichita, Kansas with his wife and dogs. More at troyjamesweaver.com

Support this show and find more at patreon.com/agitator   Follow Art of Darkness: artofdarkpod.com Kevin Kautzman is a playwright living in St. Paul, Minnesota. His award-winning plays have appeared around the UK and US and are available in print at Broadway Play Publishing . His dark social media comedy MODERATION was adapted for an online release and can be found at  moderationplay.com . A past...

Noah Rymer is the author of the upcoming Denouement (Anxiety Press) and editor-in-chief of Pere Ube. On this episode, we discuss organic vs curated diversity, constructive criticism, the Muse, using music to write atmosphere, and more. Buy denouement HERE Check out Pere Ube: https://pereube.univer.se/ Some of Noah's stories: "Dead Los Angeles" https://expatpress.com/dead-los-angeles-noah-rymer/ "E...

Fella - host of The Third Place and everyone's favorite Hard R Gamer - returns after way too long to discuss with Kelby the ways in which stories can be told through video games, how video games are like books, Metal Gear Solid  (primarily 4), Hideo Kojima and his body curiosity, JRPGs, Red Dead Redemption 2  as the ultimate love/hate game, The Last of Us, adaptations, the next evolution of games...

We're so back.

Jack Mason is the host of The Perfume Nationalist, a continuing radio soap opera in which art and culture, high and low, are discussed through the historical lens of fragrance. On this episode, we discuss embracing fragrance as an art form and consciously engaging with scent. We also talk the pitfalls of minimalist literature, which fragrances we're most vibing with now, the importance of being ea...