{"product_id":"crank-fm-michael-mcgavin-9798180412669","title":"Crank-FM: Volume 2: Do billionaires taste good?","description":"A late night broadcaster perched on a high balcony in the Shadow Precinct reports the truth no one else will touch: interdimensional conspiracies, alternate Earth incursions, underwater civilizations, psychic parasites, and the strange communities forming right under our noses. Drawn from \"lightly processed transcripts\" of the CRANK FM radio show, these stories blend cosmic horror, deadpan humor, and metaphysical world building into a serialized chronicle of a universe coming apart at the seams. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEpisodes in this volume: \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe end of the serial killer era\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The serial killer as a cultural phenomenon is declared largely over with modern versions dismissed as LARPing, while the underlying impulse is argued to have shifted to more sophisticated spiritual and intellectual corruption.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBad day at the gun range\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA visit to normalize his relationship with his weapon after shooting robots goes wrong when the upgraded optic detects something in a fellow shooter, who pursues him to the parking lot with a rifle and is killed by energy rounds that appear to exorcise a possessing entity.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePsychic death will get you killed\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe broadcaster develops the concept of psychic death as what happens when identity built on luxury beliefs divorced from cause and effect is challenged, using fiat money, button-pressing convenience, and climate change as the primary examples.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEmotional propaganda in action\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA grocery substitution notification and an insurance commercial before a Jack Ryan movie prompt analysis of how fear and wish fulfillment are deployed as emotional control mechanisms in daily media consumption.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eDo billionaires taste good\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA group of settlers recruited from military podcast communities attempt to colonize a pristine alternate earth, devolve into cannibalism of friendly indigenous people over winter, and most die before the five year commitment ends.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBad manners will get you killed every time\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe indigo bunting spotted at a consulting location prompts analysis of the large scale incursion being tracked, framed as agent-driven waves rather than conventional invasion, with the double tap as the key tactical concept to understand.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWe will not break\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA security guard foot chase at 3am observed from the balcony leads to reflection on safety as a manufactured product and the torn curtain as a metaphor for the membrane between worlds, with Kane's motives increasingly suspected.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eDestructive individuals never rest\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA distortion indicators segment connecting the idea of professional manipulators having nothing productive to do with a convicted murderer threatening victims at sentencing, both having nothing else to do but plan harm.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA man eating catfish abomination\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn intelligent fish that loves to eat human flesh. Unknown whether it is a local mutant or imported from another world\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eInterdimensional gun smuggler\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Romulus Kane draws the Narrator into the case - they are taking guns across planetary lines and they go down fighting.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Michael McGavin\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798180412669\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/06\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 74\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.24lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.15d","brand":"Michael McGavin","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49173558788351,"sku":"9798180412669","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/crank-fm-michael-mcgavin-9798180412669","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}