Agitator

118 - The Best TMNT Show (ft. Rowan Hendrix)

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 announcement, writing workshops, parenting, and more. Full episode at patreon.com/agitator - $5/month gets you full access to the uncut episodes, the private Agitator Discord, and bonus content. 

117 - Playing Doki Doki Literature Club with E Rathke

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/dating simulator starring kawaii anime schoolgirls?We also talk a lot of s**t that would throttle the SEO (in other words, it's a banger). Listen to the full chapter, watch the video version, gain Discord access, and support us as independent authors, publishers, and filmmakers by pledging $5/month at patreon.com/agitatorRead E Rathke's Substack:radicaledward.substack.comAnd buy his books:Amazon

116 - Tetsuo: The Road Dog (ft. John Wayne Comunale)

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-the-road book sales and the convention circuit, the independent artist grindset, meat space vs online audience, the problems with "doing it for the love," writing with audience in mind, meat and potatoes (???), redneck parking, Dungeons & Dragons, and more. 
Keep up with John Wayne and cop some books, music, drip, and more at johnwayneisdead.com
Full episode and video available in the $5/month tier on patreon.com/agitator

115 - Resident Evil: Betrayal (ft. Wren Collier)

We have the homie Wren back to talk every Resident Evil CGI film: Degeneration, Damnation, Vendetta, Infinite Darkness, and Death Island. We're talking RE tropes, best fights, the benefits of these CG films over live-action, which ones we loved and which ones we hated, AND, we come up with a banger Resident Evil sequel plot of our own that nobody will be ballsy enough to make happen but if you do, you owe us money. Making this one free for Halloween, but if you enjoy what you find here, there's a lot more going on at patreon.com/agitator

114 - Bad City Thirst Trap (ft. Robert Dean)

FULL EPISODE ON patreon.com/agitatorToday we have Robert Dean, incredible writer and longtime homie, to discuss Kensuke Sonomura's 2022 film Bad City as well as Bobby's essay collection Existential Thirst Trap.Also discussed: faceless fame, writers whose advice is better than their books, Arnold Schwarzenegger, "what would Miike have done?," energy flow dance fighting, adventures in gay porn and speaking sex toy gigs, Brian Keene, "The Economy of Sin," Bobby's essay that is too dark to find a home for, diversity in meritocracy, Broken River getting kicked off Publishers Marketplace, Israel and Palestine, and lots more tea-spilling, name-naming, and sauce-dripping on all things writing, publishing, and promoting.Follow Robert Dean on IG @literallyrobertdean

113 - Omega Fish Corp EXCLUSIVE FIRST LOOK ft. LowRes Wünderbred & Hans Lam Barboza

**full episodes are exclusively on patreon.com/agitator**On this episode:
The current state of the film Mass State Lottery
Endlessly tinkering with creative projects
The origins of LowRes and Hans and what happened to their political podcast
Impressions of our exclusive look at the Omega Fish Corp. script + insight into how differently it translated to film
How AI is good for independent artists
Aftermath of the WGA strike and our honest opinions on the whole thing
and more!
Follow LowRes: IG: @lowreswunderbred X: @LowresWB Follow Hans: IG: @hansicandos X: @Hwordname Subscribe on YouTube @LowResWunderbred ...and Patreon https://www.patreon.com/lowres/posts & check out forgottengenres.comTrack list: "Devil Ass City" by Z-Ro "Ghetto Boys" by That Mexican OT

112 - Most Dangerous Podcast: MD Geist, AI, & Nu Metal with Wren Collier

We're talking MD Geist and MD Geist II: Death Force with Wren Collier. Mostly, though, it's a music episode. We know you love those. So do we. We wish death upon irony and get real genuine in this conversation about keeping it cool, 80s action movie aesthetics, our HOT TAKES on AI art and writing, and - dawg, there's so much in here. Stop making me type these descriptions, go sign up at patreon.com/agitator in the Agitator Z tier to listen to the whole thing, enrich your life, and be an all-around more fulfilled person. 

111 - Samurai Champloo

***All new episodes will be Patreon exclusive***patreon.com/agitatorOn this episode:
Best beat producer tags, Cyberpunk DLC, where we're each at with our next books (both late), Rhyd Wildermuth's Here Be Monsters and why Marxists rub Kelby wrong, the return of magic in a godless world, intersectionality and the dilemma of wokeism, Samurai Champloo, Pirates of the Carribean, The Bear, A Knight's Tale, boat life, modern day Conservative Christians, David trips about time, remembering Josh Hartnett and Shannyn Sossamon, the new Alien movies are tight, book tours and promo ideas, the trickster archetype, continued hype on Elle Nash's Deliver Me, writing dangerously, and more.
 

110 - DELIVER ME with Elle Nash

Talking DELIVER ME, transgressive fiction, the threshold of compromise, Miike, and more with author Elle Nash. Follow Elle: IG: https://www.instagram.com/saderotica/ X: https://twitter.com/saderotica Buy DELIVER ME: https://www.unnamedpress.com/books/book?title=Deliver+Me Subscribe to Elle's Patreon for exclusive blog posts, book club access, personal tarot readings, and because she's dope: https://www.patreon.com/saderotica***Listen to the full episode at patreon.com/agitator***

109 - Bad Foundations with Brian Allen Carr

Sign up to the $5/month Agitator Z tier to listen to this and all future episodes: https://www.patreon.com/agitatorTalking workplace injuries, mortality, ghosts in laser lights, teaching Lil Wayne in English class, Brian's new novel Bad Foundations, navigating places where you have outstanding warrants, rhythm vs readability, marketing, and much more. This episode is hilarious as expected, just the homies chopping it up.Buy Bad Foundations by Brian Allen Carr: https://www.clashbooks.com/new-products-2/brian-allen-carr-bad-foundations-signed