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.

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.  

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 Vegas and Sandy (oh, my!), interplanetary travel, Elon Musk, caring vs not caring what other artists think, and more.

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Tavora Lea's Pain System

Talking Terrifier, Terrifier 2, The Substance, construction, making money off writing, labels and genres, doing the Trump weave, indie publishing insider secrets, Logan Berry's design-heavy books and theatrical plays, and more.

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Keeping film brain out of literature. Anti-adaptation. Not all content is art. How to stop the Joker. ODDITY. PULSE. Books about cultivation and dragons. Update/teaser on publishing Adam Lehrer's next novel. What makes great art. Shop talk. Fences and parking lots. Who will save you from drowning?

The whitest Agitators you know (JDO and Eddy Rathke) bring you this episode in Kelby's absence. Talking: the pros and cons of ****, Tsutomu Nihei's Tower Dungeon, the Chinese genres Wuxia and Xianxia, Wuxiaworld, a reminder to leave the writing community, book clubs with HVAC techs, cultivation novels, what non-writers are looking for from writing, and more.

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Kelby and JDO discuss Takashi Miike's Lumberjack the Monster, Jeremy Saulnier's Rebel Ridge, and Tim Burton's Beetlejuice Beetlejuice + the return of oil paintings as cover art, masculine rites of passage, grifters vs doers, being red-pilled vs just being normal, assassination attempts, and plenty of craft, marketing, and publishing talk.

Troy James Weaver is the author of Witchita Stories, Temporal, Visions, Marigold, and Selected Stories. He lives in Wichita, Kansas with his wife and dogs.