Agitator

Very special interview episode today with ADR (English dub) anime director/producer/writer Shannon Reed of Sentai Filmworks. We get into the nuts and bolts of what it means to direct anime and what all goes into the dubbing process, from rewriting to match mouth flaps to pulling the perfect performance out of voice actors and everything in-between. We also talk balancing fun and hard work, Star Wa...

Today on the show, we have Jeremy Bronaugh, author of When You Bleed to Death , to discuss processing trauma through art, anime of the '90s vs today, technology going too far (or not far enough), prose vs plot, the Road House remake, the best Easter movies, Poor Things , pop culture reflecting culture, raising kids, and so much more. This one's a banger. Check out the audiobook of When You Bleed t...

Are dinosaurs real? How much dope they be selling at Crayon World? How come when people invent a new fuel source or cure cancer with vegetables they "suddenly aren't with us" anymore? Should people be mad about the New Demons anthology? Is writing a business? What's next for the Agitator boys? All these questions and more are answered on... this episode. Support the Agitator project and get a more...

Agitator boy Kelby was flying solo holding it down for the Broken River crew at Ghoulish Fest in San Antonio. Shouts out Max Booth III and Lori Booth for the hard work throwing and promoting that; there was a major turnout of locals ready to buy weird and fucked up books. On this special boots-on-the-ground episode, Kelby is chopping it up with author (and psychiatric professional) Michael Tichy b...

The Agitator boys have opposing thoughts on DUNE. Instead of going to war over some art that someone else made, we explore the nature of taste and why we vibe with or hate certain movies. We also have beef with Gerber for putting lead in baby snacks and with PSO for being a terrible energy company. 

Our review of Takashi Miike's shot-on-iPhone 15 short film Midnight + character development through method acting + freestyling a story by starting with a theme + THIS IS FICTION, ANYTHING WE SAY CAN AND WILL MAKE YOU LOOK STUPID IN A COURT OF LAW + new capitalism. Sign up for $5/month at patreon.com/agitator for Discord access, early looks and behind the scenes of film projects, bonus and extende...

Email business inquiries to kelbylosack@outlook.com RE: The County series funding and Agitator Films stock. On this episode, JDO and Kelby are talking: Adam Lehrer's analysis of the recent self-immolation , our responses to people still waiting on our Kickstarter and pre-order projects, Ye's VULTURES, Shane Gillis coming full circle with SNL, and the hourglass method of outlining a story. We almos...

JDO is doing some live-developing of his novel-in-progress, Ronin Trash, about tusk hunters and demons. We're also talking beginner's mind, bringing more feminine left-brain energy into the process, voice vs plot, Palahniuk, Crichton, THE WILL OF THE MANY, WebNovel apps, and more. Thank you for listening. Shout out if you vibe with this in any way. brbjdo.substack.com kelbylosack.com

The mystic juggalo weebs are live from the couch in Oklahoma recapping AWP, laying out all the realities/logistics/benefits/pitfalls/alternatives of publishing as a collective, and detailing the dangers of putting your trust in models of big industry (we go in on why Kelby was kicked off Amazon and we were all kicked off Publishers Marketplace). New listeners who found the show after meeting us in...

SPKU (seppuku) is Agitator's music-focused spinoff. On this episode, hoodrat novelist/filmmaker Kelby Losack chops it up with one half of the roid noise duo Botched Chadification/author/essayist/System of Systems host and Safety Propagandist Adam Lehrer about Kanye's new joint, the masterpiece VULTURES 1.     Botched Chadification Listen to System of Systems on Patreon and everywhere you listen to...

Short film behind the scenes, AWP recap, etc. We're all in a hotel in Kansas City. Hour and a half of sleep in the past couple days. We're selling books like it's fenty. Featuring: Rios de la Luz E Rathke Grant Wamack

On this episode of the freestyle storytelling podcast, we have actor/poet Kenney Dorcely straight from the Massachusetts boonies to develop an epic anime rap ballad opera inspired by 8 Mile, Avatar: The Last Airbender, and Yu-Gi-Oh! Follow Kenney on IG: @ chupakarbra_burnsum Watch Kenney on GLUE ADDICT  

We react to Jerry Hasani and mumble rap in general, bring news of crazy book sale success, spitball some directions to further level up the show, and then we get into the main event: freestyling a rodeo clown family tragedy based on the story of Moses (with some Dr Dolittle/Animal Farm sprinkled in). 

Agitator is a freestyle storytelling podcast hosted by hoodrat noir and gutter cyberpunk novelists/filmmakers J David Osborne and Kelby Losack . In this episode, the prompt is provided by Castaigne Publishing : what would a Steinbeck story incorporating a classic Universal monster look like? We also freestyle an anti-open world video game concept. Sign up at patreon.com/agitator for exclusive Disc...

rarecandy.substack.com This is a cross post with our Rare Candy brother Glen Rockney. Talking Bret Easton Ellis's masterpiece THE SHARDS. 

We ain't got time for these descriptions no more, cuz. This a pivot point though, crucial listening. It's also just chill. Happy new year everybody. 

On this episode, Kelby and JDO talk a line of shit about Berserk volumes 27-30, Nazis on Substack, and Israel/Palestine. Full show notes: The importance of going to The Church of the Black Swordsman. Berserk is the Bible. In volume 27 we’re back into the Guts stuff. Donning the Berserk armor. Having that dog in you. How do sociopaths see the world? The War of the Midland Kingdoms. The lack of good...

We're talking Akira Kurosawa's Macbeth adaptation THRONE OF BLOOD + homoeroticism, edgy content vs edgy tone, copyrighting the sun, Nigeria, and much more with writer/host of Getting Lit , Matthew Sini . 

It's a kickback with the homies at Rare Candy Industries. We're talking Blake Butler's MOLLY, Jordan Castro's statement on the racist publishing industry, 1-star bombing your peers from sock puppet accounts, and Akira Kurosawa's YOJIMBO.   Listen to Rare Candy and subscribe to their premium feed: rarecandy.substack.com   Buy JDO's new cyberpunk novel War In Heaven: https://www.amazon.com/War-Heave...

The mystic juggalo weebs J. David Osborne and Kelby Losack are joined by screenwriter, author, and Mutual Aberration Society host Ryan Jackson to discuss 2023's Netflix anime ONIMUSHA, directed by godfather of the show, Takashi Miike and based on the Capcom series of video games. We discuss: the Agitator sound board, slur buttons, how Koreans say "I," Nick-r-Treat and '90s commercials, Programmed...

On this episode, JDO and Kelby discuss Danny Brown’s new 10/10 masterpiece Quaranta and JDO’s new GFNB novel, A War in Heaven. The guy from Salem takes naked selfies, why would anyone want to be a writer?, the Lil Wayne & 2 Chainz album is great, Pitchfork sucks, JDO reminisces about being 26 and hearing XXX for the first time, a trip to the DMV, AOC’s mixtape, the lamentational aspect of Quar...

This episode is dedicated to Grant Wamack . We're talking our favorite version of TMNT, plus some history of the franchise as a whole while Kelby's oldest son Rowan watches and provides live commentary on the 2012 Nickelodeon series. Also: ancestral memory of war symbols, history of darkness in Ninja Turtles, getting weird on a budget, making the case for fan fiction, David's Donatello novel annou...

Agitator is a freestyle audio novel, a modern retelling of the Rocky Balboa story starring two mystic juggalo weebs. In this chapter: we're talking Team Salvato's 2017 freeware visual novel Doki Doki Literature Club! with author, game writer, and homie E Rathke. Is it as scary as people are saying? Does it live up to the hype? Who is the target audience for a twisted interactive horror novel/datin...

TETSUO: THE IRON MAN (1989) Dir. Shinya Tsukamoto with John Wayne Comunale We're talking Houston's most interesting bathrooms, pervasive erotic breathing and the frame-by-frame humanity within Tetsuo: The Iron Man, Tsukamoto's obsessive production process, endlessly developing interpretations of the film, juvenile show-crashers, insurance policies ruining movies and movies ruining friendships, on-...

Eddy joins the podcast to talk about the Cyberpunk 2077 tie-in novel No Coincidence by Rafał Kosik. It's a heist novel with a huge cast of characters. Eddy and I talk about the response to the book (positive and negative), and discuss the job of crafting a tie-in novel, working in others' IP, "dummy theory," the importance of humor on a character's development, and the similarities between it and...