Episodes
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[Free Preview] LORDS OF SALEM with Salem
For the full episode, go to patreon.com/agitator
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[PREVIEW] RARE AGITATOR: The G-Sides
Kelby and Glen discuss the new Project Pat x Church's Chicken collab and much more. Listen to Rare Candy: rcnow.org // https://substack.com/@rarecandy
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LOVERS ON THE BRIDGE with Curtis Eggleston
Curtis Eggleston - author of Opaquely A and Hollow Nacelle - returns to talk Lovers on the Bridge and much more. Follow him on IG and Substack @vagabondswans. Theme song by E_DEATH
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[PREVIEW] ...a novel by Dick Gregory [FULL EPISODE]
The full Camp Miasma episode, including an exclusive new short story reading by J David Osborne.
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Ask Me About My Curls [FREE HALF]
On Kid Rock cameos, Halloween, and Camp Miasma. Theme song by E_DEATH.
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RESIDENT EVIL: The Fake Fan Version
Go to patreon.com/agitator for more. Buy Daughter of Rot by Rios de la Luz. Theme music by E_DEATH. You know Big Rig? Of the Marole clan?
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[PREVIEW] RESIDENT EVIL: What Would Zach Cregger Do?
We're talking Zach Cregger's Resident Evil and Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City. Also: fandoms and lists and things. This episode is brought to you by Daughter of Rot by Rios de la Luz. Theme song by E_DEATH
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MY BEAUTIFUL GOLD CHAIN TEXAS TEA FANTASY with Kevin Kautzman
Catholicism, gold chains, the status of Texas Tea, writing plays vs writing novels, the perfect follow-up to Muppet Christmas Carol and Muppet Treasure Island, Kanye West, and the albums that matter most to us. Kevin Kautzman is an award-winning playwright and one half of the excellent Art of...
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Herman Melville's MOBOHEDORO (Rated E for Everyone)
The parallels between indie publishing and indie games. The future of Agitator. Honest opinions about your favorite authors and podcasts nobody listens to. Work. Dad stuff. AND: Dorohedoro, the anime based on Q Hayashida's manga. Go to patreon.com/agitator for more episodes like this. Go to...
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[PREVIEW] Method and Madness AMA with J David Osborne
Brad Kelly and J David Osborne answer your M&M questions. Talking the visual imagination of writers, what we can learn from LitRPG, music for men of a certain age, escaping forward, making trillions of dollars in CharlieCOIN by selling books to bots, and much, much more. Subscribe to Method and...
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Deadly Outlaw: Rekka, Vol. I - Men in Black Probe
patreon.com/agitator brokenriverbooks.com
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PROFESSOR BEAR'S ADVENTURE with Matt Taylor
Kelby and Nicky are chopping it up about children's books, new vs old media, library marketing, and more with author and podcast personality Matt Taylor. patreon.com/agitator Buy PROFESSOR BEAR'S ADVENTURE and read it with your kids:...
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Transcending Dimensions
The rowdy boys are in town... patreon.com/agitator
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CYBERNETIC CULTURE with Mike Kleine
Pre-order Mike Kleine's latest book/audio/visual art project 1141,1001 at https://mikekleine.bigcartel.com/ Go to patreon.com/agitator and subscribe for more Agitator.
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MOTORAMA AND THE SCREENWRITER'S REALITY with Joseph Minion
Nicky and Kelby are chopping it up with Joseph Minion, writer of Motorama, Vampire's Kiss, and After Hours. Watch Motorama here: https://youtu.be/0uUz988Dwo8?si=nhCKNpOQu0QpGZRS
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TIKTOK MARKETING
Follow our boy JDO on TikTok. Unc gone viral now.
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Hiro Murai's ATLANTA Part 1
Kelby and Nicky are going in on every season of Atlanta. This is the first part; sign up at patreon.com/agitator to hear the rest. Also, Broken River Books has a fresh website: brokenriverbooks.com
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[PREVIEW] RARE AGITATOR: All Crazy ft. Glen Rockney
Yet another all-timer horse sesh with our Rare Candy homie Glen Rockney. Listen to Rare Candy: rarecandy.substack.com
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DO YOU LIKE WEIRD BOOKS? with E Rathke
Picking the brain of one of the greatest indie book pushers out there, our very own Broken River brother E Rathke. Lot of sauce spilled in this one. Slicefully, erathke.com radicaledward.substack.com
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DEADLY PREMONITION with Gwen Hilton
Talking Deadly Premonition and its busted sequel, Tony Hawk as the root of everything, the Japanese art of ripping off, Full Moon Features, and more with author Gwen Hilton. Buy and read Gwen's work.
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THE JAPAN-AMERICAN MODDED PS2 COOKOUT
Subscribe at patreon.com/agitator for the video plus hundreds of paywalled episodes. Today, the boys are talmbout the Japanese love of Texas cookouts trend, how the PS2 was made, recent absurd allegations against the Broken River crew, Silent Hill f, previewing upcoming Japanese-American video...
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[PREVIEW] THE OSCAR FOR BEST OSCAR with Kenney Dorcely
JDO recaps AWP - Baltimore. We debate the merits of Sinners as an award circuit darling with Supporting Actor nominee Kenney Dorcely of Mass State Lottery and B-Bang podcast fame. Also: the psychic components of art, what Michael Jordan did, blind biker with a skull made of blue glass, the new...
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[PREVIEW] ANALIFE with Salem Anhedonia
Salem aka E_DEATH returns to chop it up with Kelby and Nicky bout Kenji Goda's 2005 film Analife (アナライフ Anarifu). Episode soundtrack: "Gas $$$" "Penthouse" "Stairway Railings" This episode is sponsored by Lisa Marie Zapata's "Untitled." Read on The Gorko Gazette.
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WHITE MEN with Schuyler Hernstrom
Catch Sky's art, buy his books and comics, and follow him on social media: https://frug.neocities.org/ https://www.patreon.com/cw/ApocalypticMarginalia https://pilumpress.com/ https://x.com/Frug73 https://substack.com/home/post/p-181165516
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[PREVIEW] The April 2006 Message from Dan Simmons ft. Rare Candy
In this wide-ranging episode, the crew reflects on the death of legendary genre author Dan Simmons, unpacking his literary legacy alongside the political controversies that complicated his later years. From Hyperion, The Terror, and Song of Kali to debates over Islamophobia, the War on Terror…
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[PREVIEW] The Fear of Death w/ Jack Norman
In this episode, we sit down with debut author Jack Norman to talk about his collection Sleep Capricorn and the anxieties that power it—death, fatherhood, technology addiction, artistic ambition, and the fear of wasting your life scrolling. We dig into his influences ( William Gass in…
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INVERSION with Amir Namaan and Pierre D'Alancaisez
Today, Kelby is joined by Amir Namaan and Pierre D'Alancaisez, editors of the anthology Inversion: Gay Life After the Homosexual, to discuss the downfall of western civilization and potential remedies, what gayness meant before and what it means now, the homosexual right-winger, and much more....
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Life is the Training Ground for Death w/ Andrew Edwards
In this episode, JDO talks with novelist Andrew Edwards (King of Dogs, Crowbar) about persistence, faith, and going past surface-level art into something real. They dig into dark spiritual history, MK Often, Orthodoxy, satanic systems, and the idea that modern life is intentionally hostile to...
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The Earthen Dark w/ Brad Kelly
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...
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[PREVIEW] HARD R CANDY CHRISTMAS
Support our boys at rcnow.org Merry Christmas!!
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PEEP "TV" SHOW: On OCD, DMT, and Voyeuristic Art (ft. Salem Anhedönia)
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...
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INITIAL D: THANKSGIVING SPECIAL with LowRes Wünderbred and Hans Lam Barboza
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.
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ON WRITING
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
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[PREVIEW] IT Girl
Guillermo Del Toro's Frankenstein + IT: Welcome to Derry + Sydney Sweeny + Lil Ashtray + Greek Love
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[PREVIEW] Gain of Fiction Vol. 63 - Eaters of the Dead
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,...
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BLUE SPRING
Today, we're talmbout Toshiaki Toyoda's BLUE SPRING (2001). These kids ain't all right.
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LEGACY OF KAIN 3-WAY with Matt Sini and Yeerk P.
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
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SONATINE with LowRes Wünderbred
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.
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[PREVIEW] PIRA(I)CISM
Talking piracy, AI, and other bullshit while waiting on our guest. For patrons only. Buy Gods Fare No Better at ronintrash.bigcartel.com
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DEMON CITY: Hooked On Phobics
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...
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[PREVIEW] FURY 12 HOURS
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...
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[PREVIEW] BARS (ft. David Simmons)
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…
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[PREVIEW] HAPPY G DAY, YOUNG BLOOD (ft. Grant Wamack)
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.…
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[PREVIEW] OLD-TIME RELIGION w/ Banjer Jack
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,...
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[PREVIEW] AGACITY ATORDS II with Matt Sini
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.
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[PREVIEW] HIGHLANDER ORTHODOXY with Detective Wolfman
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.
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[PREVIEW] GLITCH IN THE ROMULUS with Michael Tichy
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.
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ALL THE DEWORMED HORSES with Glen Rockney and Psi of Rare Candy
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...
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[PREVIEW] MIKE TYSON VS WILLIAM GIBSON with E Rathke
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.
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[PREVIEW] Make Agitator Greatly Affluent
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