The Lazy & Entitled Podcast

Chris and Brendan talk winners for the spooky season viewing, Brendan says how he really feels about Flanagan's Carrie and spoils the shit out of a series he does not recommend, and the fellas go long talking about The Buffalo Hunter Hunter (and still barely scratch the surface).

Today's episode find the boys talking about what their horror consumption has been so far in October. Brendan also has a great conversation with Nick and Kaleb from ComicsToYourCouch, an independent comic publisher operating out of the northside of Chicago, the greatest city on Earth. Support their new project on Kickstarter and buy their other work directly from their website comicstoyourcouch.store

Poetry as Propaganda with Melissa Ferrer Civil by Lazy & Entitled

Maybe we're shooting our shot a bit with this title. This was both a fun and a strange episode to put together. Over the course of the year, we've asked all of our guests who either live in Chicago or lived here at one point a series of questions. These were supposed to be rapid-fire, but if you ask a Chicagoan about food or culture, you're bound to get some thoughts. As such, we don't ask every guest the same questions, and we aren't airing every response from every guest. There was just too much! We've got Kelly Dwyer, Kathleen Rooney, Logan Trent, Tom Urwin, H Kapp-Klote, and Bridget Gordon chiming in here.

All that, plus Brendan got a baritone guitar!

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Another book club episode! This week, Brendan and Chris are reading THE WALLS ARE CLOSING IN ON US by Joshua Trent Brown. Plus, we "recap" the show last week, and a reading from Studs Terkel

Chris discusses life, hoops, music, and so much more with the incredible Kelly Dwyer. Plus, Brendan reveals how much drawing he did or didn't do as a kid. And as always, a reading from Studs Terkel

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You ever read a good book of short stories? Brendan and Chris sure have! This week, we're diving into Chloe N. Clark's new collection, Every Galaxy A Circle. If you like sci-fi, horror, and fairy tales this one's for you. We talk about themes of various abysses, memory, and what we owe each other.

All that, plus, a reading from Studs Terkel.

Find Every Galaxy A Circle at Jackleg Press: https://jacklegpress.org/fiction

Find more Chloe at https://www.chloenclark.com/

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July, July. Are you near a body of water? You oughta be. Go for a swim, it's good for you. Today, we're interviewing Katheen Rooney, author of the just-this-week published MAN OVERBOARD!, which is destined to be THE novel of the summer. Plus, Brendan and Chris talk small, unexpected career wins, and there's a reading from Studs Terkel.

Find more Kathleen here: https://kathleenrooney.com/

Buy MAN OVERBOARD here: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Man-Overboard!/Kathleen-Rooney/9781668212387

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We had our summer live reading last week, and thought it might be fun to try our hand at live recording. Did we succeed? Well, you're listening to live poetry right now, aren't you? Cause if you're not, that means you're just reading an episode description. There's no fun in that. We don't even write it like dudes with ad copy training. We're just telling you that on this podcast, you'll hear Sara Matson, Bridget Gordon, and Julián Martinez reading poetry. Heck, you'll even hear Chris Corlew reading poetry, and Brendan Johnson playing guitar. What a treat! And there's still a reading from Studs Terkel!

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Sara Matson (she/her) is a poet in Chicago. Her poems can be found in Bone Bouquet, Impossible Task, Ghost City Press and crumpled in recycling bins from Berlin to Waukegan. Sara hosts the seasonal online reading series Words // Friends and her latest chapbook, (Women) In STEM is available from Bottlecap Press. Find her on Instagram @skeletorsmom

Bridget Gordon (she/her, fae/faer) is a queer trans woman and emerging poet living in Chicago. A former MFA student and sports journalist, her current work with poetry and short-form writing is enraptured with queer longing, identity, and liminality. She has past or forthcoming publications in Moist Poetry Journal, TRANS MAG, Pink Poetry Club, Coin-Operated Press, and Red Rock Review. Fae is the author of the self-published chapbook, the rest is up to you, love, released in Summer 2026. Her debut full-length poetry collection, if you know the color of their eyes it’s already too late, will be published by Raging Opossum Press in Fall 2026. Fae lives with her husband, metamour, cats, a blue electric guitar named Evie, and an ominously large TBR pile.

Julián Martínez is the son of Mexican and Cuban immigrants and is from Waukegan, IL. His work has appeared in HAD, hex literary, Little Engines, Rejection Letters and elsewhere. His debut collection of short fictions and a novella will be released in Spring 2027 by Future Tense Books. Find him online @martinezfjulian or IRL in Chicago.

Chris and Brendan hype their first 2026 reading and discuss the practice of creating something that will never be a fuller, more complete idea.