The Agency

This week The Agency welcomes traditional musicians Patt Plunkett and Charlie Walden (Patt & Possum) to the program. Join us for some fab music and chat. The agents also enjoy a lively discussion about Alfred Hitchcock's 1946 film Notorious....and more! Email us anytime: theagency.podcast@gmail.com

This week: ...What is Elon Musk reading these days? ...Two great satires: Best in Show and Being There ...Wordle ...Yet another coming of age story - The Tender Bar ...Food and History + pudding in N. America vs pudding in the UK ...Can Eugene make a fiddle? and much more Email us anytime: theagency.podcast@gmail.com  

All the best movies. All the time. We watch at least three great movies this week. MacBeth. The French Dispatch. The Firm. Strangers On A Train.   Tell us what you are doing...cooking, reading, watching. We love your email and thank you for listening!   Email to: theagency.podcast@gmail.com

This week the Agents are joined by a returning guest, song-writer, singer and multi-instrumentalist David Sawyer + plenty of the usual shenanigans. Music on this week's program: Barney Rubble's Fit of Jealousy (I love you Wilma) performed by Jessie Burnett and written by David Sawyer John Bullard's tune, written and performed by David Sawyer Nettie's Frog-Gigging Kick-a-poo, written and performed...

The battle is between who is more esoteric...Candy or Eugene? They both do their best by immersing themselves in Renaissance ethos. And for the record Olivia Colman is not in COUNTER PART. It is Olivia Williams. Folkways, snow ways and hot tea. How do you like your road kill? Barbeque. Please email the agents about anything at: theagency.podcast@gmail.com

Eugene and Candy have something in common. Sort of. The movie stars Sandra Bullock and Keanu Reeves.  Candy is researching the history of Hollywood logos for her upcoming presentation at the Southwest Popular/American Culture Association. Eugene is thinking about starting a new hobby and it's a Doozy. We would like to thank our listeners and our guests this year for making life way more interestin...

Thank you for listening and happy holidays! Eugene introduces The National Film Board of Canada to our listeners outside of  the land of maple leaves with three film reviews. Candy reviews a top shelf restaurant in Chicago called Machine in the Wicker Park neighbourhood. The agents wind their way through a bunch of topics like linguistic forensics, the Unabomber, MK Ultra, Stompin Tom Conners, a s...

Thank you for listening! If you watch SUCCESSION you'll know why this episode is called "Nosy Pedestrians." The agents loved the lush, bitter finale of the third season series.   Both Candy and Eugene read Canadian-based writer Thomas King's novel INDIANS ON VACATION.   The podcast visits with a Haiti school administrator artist and educator Susan Frame. Susan fills us in on life in Jakmel, Haiti'...

The agents have been all over the map.  House Of Gucci, salted caramel cookies, BMF, radio ads in Tennessee, Sucession, Vigil, Killing Patient Zero, Janty Yates, gay bars, churches that welcome LGBT community, massage and reading materials. And cookies. And a letter from a listener!!   If you want to share your favourite cookie recipes, movies, recommendations, opinions, or take sides on one of th...

This week: Nepo vs Carlsen and the trouble with chess Selling Sunset and other reality tv The Shawshank Redemption Succession (Greg for CEO) Bad tv we love ....and lots more

Both agents saw the new movie KING RICHARD.   They also talk about Netflix comedy RED NOTICE, Ben Shahn, art criticism, winterizing, and a bunch of other stuff.   Please send emails, questions, suggestions, stories to: theagency.podcast@gmail.com

Adele's Special Performance and Interview With Oprah American Rust Belfast by Kenneth Branagh  Stage Wardrobes Red Notice Candy' Conference Proposal Letter from listener Start Up (the series) Succession  Dexter: New Blood The Dawn of Everything by Graeber and Wengrow   Please email us at: theagency.podcast@gmail.com

This week: The Comfort Food Diner Impeachment: American Crime Story My Cousin Vinny The Candidate The Disaster Artist ...and more Email us anytime. We love to hear from you: theagency.podcast@gmail.com

This week: Candy is back in Chicago from her travels. In Toronto, Eugene is cleaning out birdhouses and planting garlic. We talk about the titans of the game of Go playing in the Samsung Cup. On the tube: American Rust and Colin in Black & White. And... is Dexter really back? Eugene went to see the new Wes Anderson film, The French Dispatch of the Liberty Kansas Evening Sun. Email the show: theage...

We have an action packed episode today with two guests. Candy is in NYC and Eugene is playing fiddle all day long.    Special agent Sarah talks with us about the CIA and their victims of poisoning, and Madison Joy gives Eugene a hand reading.   If you would also like a hand reading please contact Madison on Instagram at TruthAmplified_Studio Find Sarah at... http://swallowingthecamel.wordpress.com...

This week's episode is full of goodies: -Driving instruction and an unfortunate encounter with a hard object. -US Chess Championship (in which Agent Eugene gets a bit mixed up - Fabi Caruana Caruana played Sam Shankland in Round 11 and not Wesley So). -Vendetta - Truth, Lies & the Mafia -The Last Kingdom -Succession, the new season -more American Rust -Primal Fear -The Guilty (abandoned) -Controve...

This week: Candy in Knoxville More Squid Game + an antidote: Baking Impossible Fiddler Vivian Williams on the Get Up in the Cool Podcast No Time to Die and the Bond films Out of the Past - 1947 noir classic Botez Live - super-fun power-streamers of the chess world Tony Bennett at 95 with Lady GaGa at Radio City You can reach us anytime at theagency.podcast@gmail.com Thank you for listening. If you...

This week: Candy's continued adventures in Clarksville The Many Saints of Newark - another origin story. American Rust - what happened to the American Dream? The Squid Game - this super-violent series grabs you and won't let go We love hearing from you. Email us at theagency.podcast@gmail.com

This week: travelog... Clarksville Tennessee and Las Vegas Nevada. Foodie hipster action. Family politics: Shang Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings. Hidden - a tv series from Wales. Goliath Season 4 - fun with Billy Bob. American Rust. Green Tomatoes. A giveaway and more. Please join us for the ride. We love to hear from you. Email us anytime at theagency.podcast@gmail.com . If you enjoy The Agen...

After watching the film Stillwater, the Agents contacted Sarah Elliott, author of the Swallowing the Camel blog, to revisit the Amanda Knox story. Please join us. Share your thoughts about this episode or anything you hear on The Agency. Email: theagency.podcast@gmail.com   If you are a fan of The Agency and you'd like to support the program, please visit our Patreon Page: https://www.patreon.com/...

We talk to two captivating artists this week. They both utilize public space for art. Chicago artist, teacher and curator Jesse Malmed shares his community-based approach to showing art. If you were ever in Toronto's  Kensington Market, Queen West or Parkdale neighbourhoods in the 1980s and 1990s you might have seen art bolted to fences, walls or telephone poles by Rocky Zenyk.    We know you are...

After stacking up U-Hauls the agents need a little Hennesey to chill and listen to Certified Lover Boy, Donda, The Courier, fiddle Youtube channels, Bob Ross and catch up with each other. Hope you join along and thank you for listening!   Email us at  theagency.podcast@gmail.com

Our hero returns from the great north: Eugene tells us about sleeping in a bear taco during his 10 day portage, camping and canoe adventure. Candy gets down in Iowa, checks out street graffiti and loses something important.   We want to thank you for listening. Please follow us on Instagram, Tik Tok or Twitter.    And email us your thoughts, complaints or ideas...or all of the above here: theagenc...

A whole episode where we talk with regular guest, singer/songwriter David, from Mr. Wu's Pigs...all about THE WICKER MAN. We all watch and chat about the 1973 folk horror cult classic directed by Robin Hardy starring Christopher Lee and Edward Woodward. We geek out.   To get Mr. Wu's Pigs go here: https://mrwuspigs.bandcamp.com Email us your thoughts, questions ideas and suggestions here: theagenc...

Much movie talk! Stillwater and it's similarities, or not, to The Amanda Knox Story. The delicious VAL documentary: the original "selfie artist" Val Kilmer. And we have a contest to win a cd! Please email us about anything at theagency.podcast@gmail.com