Cult. Magazine Podcast

poooooddddddd. oscars, stabbings,  Denver, that statue they have at the Denver airport, climate collapse, Frazer doesn’t really know about any states or cities besides Boston, world war thwee, and some other shit too.

The master of mashups has locked, loaded, and blown our brains into a pink mist with 43 minutes of chaotic bliss.

Podddddd backkkkkkkkkk. Joined this time by big time super mega special guest dj sensitive jock. Following the release of his mix "a page from my diary" Jacques joined us on the pod to talk about his inspiration behind the mix and talk about a bunch of other stuff too. 

Pod back. Okay yeah so this one is not what you would call timely or thoughtful or prescient or groundbreaking or however else you might typically describe our podcast. But what you can definitely call this episode is long. That’s right folks this is two episodes we’ve been sitting on for too long and thought fuck it let’s just slam these babies together and be done with it. Idk maybe you could clean your room to it or play it for your dog while you're at the grocery store. Topics are like way too many so not even gonna get into it. Got some music in there by Jenkin and DJDUSTBUNNY and Alan Bell. No pressure on this one to be honest. Listen if you want.

Hot on the heels of an election that happened almost two months ago we bring you BREAKING coverage of the NYC Mayor election. Okay yeah you caught us we sort of had this one sitting on the shelf for a bit and are throwing it out there because we didn't record over the holidays but don't let that patina full you folks this shit is still gold. Also some good lore here: this was the first time Jenkin and Frazer ever met and now they're like best friends. Witness the birth of something beautiful people. Listen up!

Yeah you read the caption I don't have to explain this shit to you asshole. It's a real interview with Ben Gore who put out a really good sculpture book. Listen please it's actually a great book and Ben has a lot of things to say about making compelling things of and within the contemporary moment. I didn't mean to talk to you like that it's just been a long day. I love you.

Pod back. Matt saw on Facebook that Charles Bukowski was bisexual so we riffed about that for like forty minutes. Highlights: Would Bukowski be more into video poker and guns instead of writing novels and confessional poetry had he lived today, general confessional crutching in literature, America has been bad forever, accutane, playing on your phone vs writing, and then Matt read two poems. Then we do Zohran stuff for a little while. Then we close out with Kyle Rittenhouse and his book, Midwest bloodlust toward cities and their inhabitants, and the American dream of being a firefighter with a girlfriend with big boobs. Yeah this shit is straight up INTELLECTUAL. AND HEY don’t forget to support us by joining the patreon or even just sending us a donation. Everything HELPS. Thank you for listening and happy holidays.

Pod back pod back pod back. Frazer made it out of the woods and onto the pod. So this is the "how was the trail pod" for the most part. We're talking isolation, smoking cigs and eating bad shit, the illusion of breaking away from society, and the freedom and tragedy of American neglect. Put dat in your ears bb.

Pod... it's back. Jenkin and Jake duo pod and this one is sorta crazy style and chopped and screwed. Topics are the following: trains and New York geography, the hype-gay FIDI Burger King poetry reading, William S. Burroughs, was Luigi an Adderall guy, how the hell do watches work, the AI bubble as it relates to people who make less than 50k a year, Stephen Paddock, Faulkner stolen valor, and some other stuff too. It's kind of a banger tbh.

Pod back. Sorta late posting this one but also sorta cooked on this shit so shut up. Seriously. Starting to piss me off fr. Umm but we got into the following: ICE, the end of Best American Poetry (bless up), adolescent cartoon porn experiences, technology as a parallel and antagonistic force to humanity, Harold Bloom is a little bitch, a "poetic lifestyle", Israel fake peace talks, and the return of the Pynch. Go ahead dummy listen. 

Okay okay okay I know what you're thinking. Where da pod been? Shit man my computer broke so pod had to wait. But, guess what, POD IS BACK. Joined this time by poet Sam Robinson to talk about his new book Man With Head Removed. We also talk about the pros and cons of self-publishing, creating art "en plein air" during a time of constant atrocity and mass degradation, a rat that killed at the warehouse, discourse as an exercise of passive egging on, and since we recorded this the day Charlie Kirk got got we talk a little bit about that and our visions for what the future might start to look like. Buy Sam's book and follow him on Instagram @baldsinatra 

Pod is back inshallah pod is back. Joined by very special guest this week poet and musician June Mota. We get INTO IT on this one lemme tell ya. Talking about MFA psyops, Drake, self flagellation as the only viable means of gaining acceptance for expressions of resistance, the inherently skeptical ways we approach art and the inherently cynical way it approaches us, and much much more. Go on and ear that up.

Ummm that's right baby... POD IS BACK. We were supposed to have a guest this week but they canceled so we said fuck it, full riff pod. Welcome back to the slop zone people; we don't give a shit anymore. Ended up getting into some good stuff actually: the self eating nature of the left in the face of fascism, Mary Oliver as a psyop, the necessary burden of eating the woe of a declining empire to make truthful are, and other stuff too. So yeah. Eat that slop up you nasty pig. We made it just for you.

Podddddd isssss back. Joined this time by poet Michael Chang to talk about his book "Things a Bright Boy Can Do". We talk about humor in poetry, fake vulnerability, utilizing contemporary speech, and just generally talk a bunch of shit. Buy Michael's book it's really good. Alright get dat in your ears.

Ah shittt the pod is back. Can you believe it? We sat down with Soloman Gottfried, the music and programming director of Close Up NYC, a new jazz bar in LES, on the heels of their one year anniversary and the closing out of their "Roots in Sound" music festival. Sol had a lot to say about community, artist attention, the atmosphere garnered by particular institutions, and a whole bunch more. We also caught him on like two hours of sleep so he was letting it FLY! Anyway, listen to the pod and go check out Close Up if you're in NYC. 

Pod is back. We were joined by Lebanese visual artist, comics author, and musician Mazen Kerbaj to talk about his new book "Gaza in My Phone". We get into a lot with Mazen including effective and ineffective expression of atrocity, the current climate of daily anticipated mass death and how an artist is to react to it, as well as the many facets of repression one faces if they decide to confront things such as the genocide in Gaza within their work. If you enjoy this episode please consider buying a copy of Mazen's new book "Gaza in My Phone" which just came out by OR Books. Thank you for listening.

Little treat for y'all here. This is the full "The Depravity of Vegandale" essay from our most recent issue, Vol. 3 Issue 1, written and read by managing editor, co-founder, big dawg, Matt Gillick. If you haven't gotten a copy of the issue you still can on our online store. Enjoy souljuhs.

Thank you to everyone that made it out to Honey's the other night. Such an incredible reading. Thank you to everyone that read and thank you very much to Maya and everyone at Discount Guillotine for creating such a special space to share work.Featured readers: Mira Shane, Nestan Nikouradze, Iva Moore, Jordan Devroux, Matt Gillick, June Mota

OH HOT DAMN them cult boys came back with a banger. We were joined by Grotto co-founding editor and Baltimore HEAVY HITTER PJ Lombardo and got the chance to speak about the Surrealist-Grotesque, Grotto, poetics of the American wasteland, and much much more. Gonna wanna put this one in your head right freaking now man. 

Awww shittttt the cult boys are back with a banger. It's pod time and we got the original recipe (Jake Frazer and Matt) cooking up for this one. Plus, hold on now, a very special treat! Coming all the way from the lake of fire, the ghost of Jeffery Epstein joined us to talk about our forthcoming issue! (Which, I'll remind you, you can buy on our website right now!) But it's not all fun in games. We also get down to business with this one. We're talking state mandated disappearing of its antagonists, the aestheticization of resistance, and the general cowardice of pretty much every major American cultural institution in the face of tyranny. So go ahead, get that in ya ears.Volume 3 Issue 1 Release party April 13th at Subject NYC. We hope to see you there.

Yeah yeah yeah you know what I'm gonna say... POD IS BACK BABY! This week we were joined by Taylor Stout the head editor at Copy Magazine. We got into some STUFF with this one: how evil large magazines are, the necessity of making community-based publications, the pitfalls of influencing others online, and a bunch more stuff. And, oh shit, listen to this... Copy just dropped a new issue! And you can buy it here: https://readcopy.co/print-volume2Right, so you better get that magazine and you better stop giving your art to big university based publications because they hate you and laugh at you behind your back. Not us though. We love you. And only laugh with you. Enjoy!

That's right folks! The pod is back and it's podder than ever. To celebrate our 20th episode – that's right 20! – we decided to go ahead reach out to our dedicated listeners to hear what was on their minds. I'm talking Q&A people. We got some good stuff and some not so good stuff but thank you for everyone who decided to send us a question. Oh also, check this out, we did a giveaway for a year's subscription for the best question and the winner is.............................. Jared A. from Atlanta! That's right Jared, you just won yourself a year's subscription to the hottest, sexiest, most intelligentist magazine in the world! Worst question goes to Tony G. from Chicago. We send you nothing but shame and hope you nothing but the worse. There is a dark mark upon your heart and you must seek repentance. Anyway, that's what's going on. Everyone go ahead and give a listen! Woo! Q&A! Cult mag forever! 

Pod pod pod pod pod! This one we're getting INTENSIVE and focusing on one of the great and greatly neglected poets of the 20th century, George Scarbrough. We were joined by the incredible Virginian poet and absolute Scarbrough-head, Nathaniel Perry for this one and got into some real heady stuff. Cultural neglect, isolation and it's purposes, the south and sexuality, language and the body that is defined by it. All of that and more exists within the quirky purview of the wonderfully idiosyncratic Scarbrough and we do our best to talk about it and even read a little poetry for you. So go ahead, get dat in your ears!

That's right baby it's a back to school episode! We're joined by new cult big dog Jenkin Benson to talk about what going on about the recent gutting of the Stanford creative writing department as well as new era of fascism at Emerson College. You! YUnG ArTisT listening to this... perhaps reconsider that fancy MFA you've been eying. It'll rot your brain!

Oh yeah the cult boys are back with another banger. We were joined by associate professor of multi-ethnic US literature Benjamin Balthaser to talk about zionism, anti-zionism, and the various complexities the two have placed upon the American Jewish population during the Israeli genocide in Gaza.

Congrats son er... Ma'am.. um well Congrats.Thank you.You've made it to the big times.Wow.And let me be the first to say welcome to Racist Pedophile and Associates and congratulations on winning this fine award for all that free speeching you been up to. Hell of a job there. World needs more of that. Here look at the camera over there. Yeah smile for 'em. Smile big.We got a special guest for this one: Ivelisse Rodriguez! Ivelisse is an incredible writer whose story collection Love War Stories was a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner in 2019. She joined us to talk about writerly life and the pitfalls of succeeding at this little thing of ours. Go ahead and stick this one in your ears baby.

Hell yeah baby we back with the podcast and it's a banger. Joined by the big dog St. Louis legend certified pod legend and Cult gold star member Devin Thomas O'shea! We're doing a little post-election chit chat (y'all already forgot about the election!?!) as well as CONJECTURE on what slop we're gonna get fed in the years to come. Strap da fuck in baby. Pod ain't playing today!

Jake and Matt pod. We're getting into the real nitty gritty here. Mark Robinson, the Southern Poverty Law Center, the manufacturing of neoliberal consent for repression, and the melding of our innate need for a messiah into our politics. That's some good stuff there. You're gonna wanna see what's cooking with this one.