The Agency

We talk to creators Scott Free and Marcus Waller about their new musical HOUSE MUSICAL. The production is playing late April at The Center on Halsted, 3656 N. Halsted Street, Chicago, Illinois.

 

The agents also share their love for New York City. Candy still doesn't have Netflix or HBO and Eugene is caught up on Succession and has an idea.

 

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This episode The Agents speak with Peyton McCarty-Simas about witches in horror films, a subject which includes psychedelics and discussion on political movements.

Also:
John Wick 4 (or... who would win a cage match between Keanu, Liam Neeson, and Charles Bronson)
Ted Lasso
Succession - it's back
Art and politics - Kent Monkman at the ROM
+ listener mail and more

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This episode, your Agents discuss the 2019 Ari Aster folk-horror film, Midsommar.

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In this episode, Agents Candy and Eugene are joined by Special Agent Sarah Elliot to talk about the Whitechapel Murders - new theories, some bizarre; what the victims were really like, and 19th Century London compared to cities today.

Read more from Sarah at Swallowing the Camel: https://swallowingthecamel.me/

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The Agents had a blast talking to Associate Professor Irma Cantu from Texas A&M International University about witches. 

 

What are the differences between Salen Witch Trial witches and Hispanic Witches? Quite a lot. We travel through Inquisitional Archives, female protests, healthcare, herbalism and freedom. And more!

 

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This episode:

CIA Backlash
AI Resistance
The Slap (and how to get attention)
Weird Tales and Absurd Characters
DakhaBrakha at Koerner Hall
Morrisseau fraudsters busted
I Just Don't Know What to do with Myself
Creatives and Art Workers
Email from Andy
...and more

Our opening theme is a traditional tune called Wild Hog in the Woods, played by Agent Eugene on clawhammer banjo.
The ending musical snippet for this episode is from Sho Z-Pod Duba from a Tiny Desk Concert by DakhaBrakha.

This episode of The Agency Podcast is dedicated to Toronto naturalist, musician and teacher Miles Hearn, who passed on February 25 and also to Kiska, the last captive killer whale in Canada — also known as "the loneliest whale in the world" - who died at a Canadian waterpark this week. The orca was believed to be 47 years old.

We're back from haitus. This episode:

A New Paper
Dog Rescues
Quilting with our special guest, Adamandia Kapsalis
The Broker
Slow Horses
When numbers get serious
Severance
Glass Onion Yay or Nay
Poker Face
The Half-time Show

Opening snippet from an old interview with Bob Dylan in San Francisco.
The snippet of Let the Mystery Be at the end is by Iris Dement. Both are used for educational purposes.

The Agents extend a big thank to our guest Adamandia.

This week:
We have a special guest this week. Vernon Cisney, a professor of philosophy at Gettysburg College in PA joins The Agents to discuss The Joker.
Also.....
Movies Lists
In Bruges
The Spy Who Dumped Me

And more.
We're taking a hiatus to recharge our batteries. Please enjoy the other 172 episodes of The Agency while we're away. See you in early spring.

Thanks for listening!

This week:
Listener mail
Celebrity bad behaviour
Armed and Hammered
The remake of Rebecca
Heist movies (and Eugene's fave actor)
The Activist Cookbook
The Passenger
The Lost Daughter
....and much more

The ending music tag of this episode is from Drinkin' Wine Spo-dee-o-dee by Stick McGhee, 1949.

This week:
A Contronym Quiz
Hitchcock's Rebecca (more twists than even Ozark?)
Listener mail
An announcement

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