Filthy Armenian Adventures: Recent Episodes
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Recording on location around Hollywood and the world, Filthy Armenian and his VIP guests go beyond the topics of the day to pursue mysteries of life, art, culture, and the heart in search of truth and gold. Each episode is an immersive radio-cinema experience. To follow the full twisted plotline, subscribe on patron.com/filthyarmenian for extra-intimate premium episodes.
An introduction to Jeeves, Wooster, the timeless literary paradise of by P.G. Wodehouse, his (almost) perfect writer's life, and some theories as to why the sublime comic pleasure of his work endures in the internet age. With Yeerk of Bistro Californium
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A man makes gladiator theater out of patriotism. Becomes rich, famous, adored. And then he risks it all for the real thing...
Reflections on the new documentary Hulk Hogan: Real American with Michael Garrity
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Putting the D in Democrat, harmful stereotypes in Euphoria, too much Lena Dunham, and Camille Paglia's horrifying recent interview among other heavy matters close out our summertime independence tea with Jack Mason of The Perfume Nationalist and Cara Cunningham of venmo.
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Pornocalypse, cruising at Buc-cees, antisocial media, state of the zoomer, return of the lesbian, and the toxic fallout of the L.A. election supply the tea for part 1/2 of this wide ranging summertime bull session with Jack Mason of The Perfume Nationalist and Cara Cunningham
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When an evil crime takes place in Los Angeles and everyone knows whodunit, but can't imagine how the perpetrators with their perfect alibi can ever be caught, you have the perfect introduction to COLUMBO.
Casey Flynn joins me in Travel Town Railroad and the Bronson Caves of Griffith Park for a timely investigation of Richard Levinson and William Link's ageless detective series starring Peter Falk.
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Lifelong Democrat Max (who lost his house in Alta Dena), lifelong Republican Matt Himes (who lost his house in Palisades), and model citizen Josh Rainer Gold join me to issue a ringing endorsement ahead of the June 2 primary election for mayor of Los Angeles between Spencer Pratt, Karen Bass, and Nithya Raman.
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Situated across the once idyllic now infernal MacArthur Park since 1947, Langer's Delicatessen has emerged as a symbol of what's at stake (and at pastrami) in the battle for the soul of L.A. Owner Norm Langer treats me to a #19 before letting loose on the mayor race, the deli business, the history of the neighborhood, and what it will take for the last "premier deli city in America" to survive.
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How Gary Indiana's tale of unrequited love-lust amid the AIDS epidemic in Horse Crazy (1989) foreshadowed the Simptuationship Era of contemporary romance.
A nocturnal rumination with Zach Langley of I'm So Popular.
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What secret quality is needed to survive the current onslaught of warring hyperrealities with your soul and sanity intact? Jacob Siegel, 9/11 veteran and author of The Information State: Politics in the Age of Total Control, tells his story.
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Jukebox episode reviewing The Drama by Kristoffer Borgli and the Iran War by Donald J. Trump.
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Personally selected passages from Witness, Whittaker Chambers's deeply emotional memoir about testifying to -- and against -- the ideology that dare not speak its name.
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On the falsification of history known as the Red Scare -- as revealed in Leslie Fiedler's tremendous essays on the Hiss-Chambers trial, the Rosenbergs, and Joseph McCarthy in An End to Innocence (1955) -- and how communism has re-infiltrated American culture today in the form of systemic Woman.
With Jack Mason of The Perfume Nationalist and Ben Braddock
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David Mamet called his films "irrefutable proof of the afterlife." I call him the poet laureate of American capitalism. Matthew Wilder joins me to investigate the secret sauce of the comic genius who gave us The Great McGinty, Christmas in July, Sullivan's Travels, The Lady Eve, Miracle of Morgan's Creek, Hail the Conquering Hero, The Palm Beach Story, and Unfaithfully Yours.
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What can Hollywood (and the haunted souls who still occupy it) learn from another picture-based entertainment industry that once was dead, but is now reborn? I probe my personal history and tragedies in the sports card trade, from the late 90s to the present day, for all they are worth.
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Since their "indescribably fiendish" origins in the Civil War, picture cards taught American boys how to smoke/chew/trade/lust/worship/collect/invest/gamble/deal with Japs... and of course how to remember. In part one of this deep dive, I review the wild history of this extremely American hobby and business from its shocking birth to its billion dollar boom and bust in the early 1990s...before I entered the scene.
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Caressed by Sunset Boulevard, at the flammable foot of Mandeville Canyon, lies a middle school named Paul Revere -- where the fate of a man (and a nation) was riding that night...
Palisades Lost Part Three
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Hollywood is now more than ever a woman in trouble. Can she be saved? Perhaps, in the spirit of its recently departed dream maker (and fearless visionary namesake), Mulholland Drive can show us the way.
The tour continues with Scout Dixon West.
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An interdreamensional tour of Mullholand Dr. begins at the Satanic Denny's on Sunset Boulevard where David Lynch -- who passed one year ago today -- got the idea for his eternal Winkie's diner.
Part 1/2. Guest starring Scout Dixon "Betty Diane" West
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Jukebox variety show on Josh Safdie's Marty Supreme, the final gift of Scott Adams, the passing of Bardot, assorted news, and a bedtime story about two gay friends who just happen to be Armenian.
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End of year sermon on the curious silence surrounding Luca Guadagnino's AFTER THE HUNT (most important movie of 2025), its connection to Thomas Vinterberg's THE HUNT (most important movie of the century), and what both have to say about recent discourses on the plight of the white millennial man.
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Looking for Christmas lessons in Willoughby with the help of a nuclear holocaust, a magical black child, several harpy wives, a suicidal trumpet and other spiritual stocking stuffers only to be found in...The Twilight Zone.
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Guest starring Yeerk of Bistro Californium.
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The Personal Palisades Tour takes a distressing turn as I struggle to find the idyllic childhood home where internet was discovered, Kobe grew his fro, and hot-and-sour soup was ladled for the teenage soul.
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Is it still possible to be raped by art? On a rainy traumatic afternoon in Paris, Matthew Wilder and I ponder the question.
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A very personal tour of the ashen ruins of Pacific Palisades begins on the street where I was taught some elemental truths about life, authority, belief and the Holocaust.
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An immersive rumination on the gay cruising nightlife captured in Andrew Holleran's 1978 masterpiece Dancer from the Dance, its modern day shadow offspring, and the morals of the story...
Guest starring Zach Langley of I'm So Popular
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HALLOWEEN SPECIAL: a tour of the Doheny Greystone Mansion in Beverly Hills, site of the still-unsolved 1929 murder mystery that inspired Raymon Chandler and the genre of L.A. noir.
Guest Starring Matt Pegas, author of The Black Album
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In the nuclear fallout of recent cinematic Chernobyls, we turn for guidance to the cool imperial mind of master noticer-storyteller Somerset Maugham, who gave us a timeless satire of literary culture and clout-chasing in his novel Cakes and Ale (1930) and reached some uncomfortable conclusions about the meaning of art in his intellectual memoir The Summing Up (1936).
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Guest starring Matthew Sini and Matt Fresca from the Getting Lit podcast
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Some thoughts on the worst movie ever made, by Paul Thomas Anderson.
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Eureka! Literary treasure has been found. It is called My Search for Warren Harding, and it's about one man's zany scheming quest for literary treasure (the love letters of "the shallowest president in history") in early 1980s Hollywood. It is the funniest thing I have read in a long time, and perhaps the most enjoyable novel ever written about L.A.
Robert Plunket joins me to reflect on how he came to compose this closet masterpiece (1983), his even queerer follow-up Love Junkie(1992), his 30 year career as Mr. Chatterbox (Sarasota's beloved gossip columnist), how he almost swung the 2000 election, his proximity to Bush on 9/11 and Ruebens during PeeWee's 9/11, and what it was like to be raised by spies.
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The rage, the pride, more lessons, and how not to be depressed by the predictable aftermath of the murder of Charlie Kirk.
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Guest starring Amanda Milius, director of The Plot Against The President.
Related: FAA 9. Amanda Milius on Sunset Strip
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Naming names, unamerican activities, and the many subtle lies being deployed to distract you from the meaning of the murder of Charlie Kirk.
With Jack Mason of The Perfume Nationalist
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A tribute to the David Lynch of broadcasting -- the voice of baseball, the voice of summer, the voice of the long Los Angeles afternoon -- the narrator of 67 years of American boyhood, the great Vin Scully.
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Glen Rockney is the co-host of Rare Candy and The Back Wall
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Juicy nuggets from a deep dive into the letters of Raymond Chandler -- on Hammett, Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Hitchcock, Hollywood Jews, Catholics, Communists, the model for Ellsworth Toohey, the writer's life and the craft of writing, and more -- plus the only surviving evidence of his literal voice, from a 1959 interview with Ian Fleming six months before Chandler died.
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Snooping around the House of Pies and the home of Raymond Chandler in Los Feliz, in search of the secrets behind Philip Marlowe. Guest starring Steve Sailer.
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With reference to: The Big Sleep - Farewell, My Lovely - The High Window - The Lady in the Lake - The Simple Art of Murder - The Little Sister - The Long Goodbye - Playback - Raymond Chandler Speaking - The Selected Letters of Raymond Chandler - and all the movie adaptations
Related listening:
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The Big Sleep
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Sailer on the Green
Masculinity on screen, immortality hobbies, and a vigorous debate between homo and hetero ideology are inspired as Matthew Wilder and I wrap our heads around Robert Altman's dreamy 1977 masterpiece 3 WOMEN at Cafe Les Ogres in Paris, France.
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Hop aboard the Brolita Express! Find a seat between Orwell and Borges. We're stopping in Austin and London on our way to Hive, a mysterious Greek island run entirely by women, ruled by a masked queen, where only the manliest men are sometimes invited. Jack Mason (The Perfume Nationalist) and Yeerk (Bistro Californium) are on the list. And so of course is my old friend Garin Hovannisian, illusionist and author of the must-read new novel HIVE, which I urge you all to read while summer is with us.
The audio in Austin in the first half is low, so please raise your volume then adjust as we cross the pond
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If you joined us IRL in LA or Austin or NYC or London, it was lovely to see you.
A show about a mystery about the loss of love and magic from our lives -- and how to get it back. Guest starring Garin Hovannisan, author of the new novel HIVE.
Part 1: Hollywood Edition. Recorded live on Hollywood Boulevard, a few steps from Grauman's Chinese, on June 14.
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The life love and man magic of Tennessee Williams, poet laureate of American summer. The study begins with his first three: the timeless Glass Menagerie, the deathless Streetcar Named Desire, and the underrated Summer & Smoke, a parable of frigidity most relevant to our times.
With Zach Langley of I'm So Popular and Josh of The Dionysian Dream
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As helicopters descend on the city it's time to cruise down to Johnie's Broiler the magical diner in Downey where Tom Waits abandons his tuna melt in SHORT CUTS (1993). What better place to enter Robert Altman's masterpiece mosaic of "untapped Los Angeles" and the Raymond Carver stories within, and what better guest to go with than the extraordinary Matthew Wilder, last seen with us at Bob's Big Boy in Burbank. Must book and movie and life always be at odds?
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HIVE will be in LA on June 14, Austin June 17, NYC June 21, and London June 26...at some fabulous locations. DM us on patreon if you'd like to attend
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Let's try to save the blues from SINNERS. After reviewing Ry Coogler's latest up against the much more profound BLACK SNAKE MOAN (2006) and more liberated CROSSROADS (1986), I take Glen Rockney and Crypto Psi of Rare Candy on a personal-historical tour of the music that made me the man (and woman) I am today.
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Also mentioned in this episode:
Blues People: The Negro Experience in White America and the Music That Developed from It by LeRoi Jones
Rock Folk: Portraits from the Rock n' Roll Pantheon by Michael Lydon
And a roster of bluesman and women too long to list.
Some thoughts on the bad news about Scott Adams, and an appreciation.
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A celebration of Erich Auerbach's masterpiece Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature, in light of the last decade's institutional conspiracy to shrink reality in Western media, which hits a grotesque low in Netflix's Adolescence.
Guest starring Yeerk of the Bistro Californium podcast
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Joan's secret love, Eve's secret letters, and the art of gossip with Lili Anolik, author of Didion and Babitz and Hollywood's Eve: Eve Babitz and the Secret History of L.A.
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Some thoughts on the passing of a warrior.
See FAA 18 Mortal Combat with David Horowitz and the Secret Chapter: Death is the Mother of Beauty
In this smoke break mini ep, I review the new album Pretty in Scorn by Cara Cunningham
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Art, drugs, or religion? Reviewing the Playstation classic Alan Wake 2, Adam Lehrer and I speculate on the nature, potential, and business of video games.
Adam Lehrer is deputy editor of Tablet Magazine and host of System of Systems
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Mike White as our Molière, what normies and bossy bottoms miss about The White Lotus, and the astonishing Christian conclusion to season three that nobody is talking about.
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Guest starring Cara Cunningham and Adam Lehrer (deputy editor of Tablet Magazine and host of System of Systems)
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Between a terrified Russian at a gay bar in La Marais and a crafty general at Père-Lachaise, the queer quest for God in Paris culminates with a mystery at the gates of Sacré-Cœur.
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A quest for the secret third thing in Paris begins, as usual, in the surprisingly gay right wing underground of Rue Princess...
Guest starring Enaygee
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Borges called CITIZEN KANE a "labyrinth with no center" but it was the center of the labyrinth that was Orson Welles, and our final destination in the second half of this tour of the magician's career, after we pass through TOUCH OF EVIL (1958), THE TRIAL (1962), THE IMMORTAL STORY (1968), F FOR FAKE (1975), and THE OTHER SIDE OF THE WIND (2018)... and realize that in his flaws, if not his greatness, Orson Welles was a lot like us.
With Darius Csiky of 8pl8s podcast
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Zoomer Orson Welles protege joins me for a Citizen Kane-like adventure through the entire career of the man who believed in magic perhaps too much -- or, perhaps, too little. We look at almost every film he made, we lean in for his radio, we applaud his theater, we gasp at his tricks and read his biography ("Rosebud" by David Thomson). Maybe we can find out what this giant boy was missing...
With Darius Csiky host of 8pl8s podcast
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Best novel about Washington D.C. and first movie to openly depict homo is a harrowing, eternal tale of the lonely gay man who stands up to the communist blob. Jack Mason of The Perfume Nationalist joins for a state of the union spurred by Allen Drury and Otto Preminger's ADVISE AND CONSENT.
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I review the Oscar-nominated biopic A Complete Unknown, before reprising my own interactive case for Bob Dylan the artist, the man, and the prophet on a mission to make America great again.
Originally aired in 2023 as "Bob Dylan on Hollywood Blvd. Vol 1 & 2," this is one of my deepest most personal solo adventures, full of outlandish historical claims that might be fun to compare to how things are turning out.
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It's one thing to see a sign, it's another thing to live up to it. As the tree of liberty shows new life in Washington, Wyatt Torosian joins me for a Hollywoodland tour into the storybook origins of the Art Right.
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Coffee and milkshakes at the historic diner where David Lynch saw Frank Booth fuel this meditation on the secret ingredients of his genius in the early period from ERASERHEAD (1977) to the world-altering masterpiece BLUE VELVET (1986).
Guest starring filmmaker Matthew Wilder (AMERICAN MARTYR, YOUR NAME HERE).
Location: Bob's Big Boy in Burbank
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Links to: The Alphabet and The Grandmother, two creepy early short films by Lynch
What did David Lynch know that we don't know? The first stop on that investigation is LOST HIGHWAY (1997), the ultimate movie about O.J. and Nicole and the burning of Los Angeles.
Also reviewed: "David Lynch Keeps his Head," David Foster Wallace's essay from the set of that movie in Griffith Park.
Yeerk of Bistro Calfornium joins me for our first deranged ride into the genius of a departed master.
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As fires continue to rage, two men share the harrowing experience of losing their homes this month -- Max in Altadena, Matt Himes in Pacific Palisades -- and we consider the suddenly viable question of: Can California turn red?
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What happened? What does it mean? Who is to blame and what signs have emerged from the burning of Los Angeles?
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There is a fire.
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Last January 6, we vowed to defeat the Grinch regime by resurrecting Santa and dreaming of a White Christmas. How did that weird plan turn out? In this intimate Filthy Armenian Christmas Special, live from the Gold Pole, Santa and special guest Steve Sailer examine the evidence under the tree, celebrate the coming of a new age, and unwrap the miracles of the last year.
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Steve Sailer is the author of Noticing
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Merry Christmas!
In light of the recent attack here is my very special adventure in New Orleans, vampire and all, in search of the secret of that great American city.
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The first annual FAA Christmas show, where Santa demonstrated how to defeat the Grinch regime, and prefigured the events of 2024.
With Richard Hanania, Jack Mason (The Perfume Nationalist), Ben Braddock, DJ Gum Arabic.
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Very few spots remain for the second annual FAA Christmas show + festivity, coming up on January 4 in a house just off Sunset Blvd. It will be a very special night with some heroic friends. Join the patreon and DM if interested in attending.
A heart-witness, Hollyweird account of the assassination attempt on Donald J. Trump.
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A stern, humorless warning about what news stories to allow into your mind space.
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Next live event -- CHRISTMAS 2025 -- on January 4 in Los Angeles. Get on the list at patreon.com/filthyarmenian
Raymond Chandler defined Los Angeles as a corrupt labyrinth of hidden truths that only an adventurous detective with noir eyes, a steel spine, and a witty disgust for sham and pettiness could uncover. In this Gain of Fiction/FAA crossover, Glen Rockney and I uncover the modern day relevance of Chandler's first and best novel The Big Sleep (1939), and the classic Howard Hawks 1946 movie adaptation starring Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall, and what they teach about being a man. We also mention the unclassic 1978 Michael Winner adaptation starring Robert Mitchum which Tarantino just ludicrously recommended.
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How Rod Serling's TWILIGHT ZONE continues to shape the American imagination and make us cry. A deep dive into the first five episodes with Yeerk of Bistro Californium. This promises to be a recurring series.
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TZ Episodes covered:
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Where is Everybody?
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One for the Angels
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Mr. Denton on Doomsday
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The Sixteen Millimeter Shrine
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Walking Distance
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Notes on a miracle.
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Election Day is upon us, so here is a sampler of political Smoke Break mini-eps from the last few months about some key characters on that stage. If you want to be several steps ahead of the zeitgeist, subscribe to the show at patreon.com/filthyarmenian for access to these brief, intimate voice letters, as well as twice as many feature-length adventures available only to the enlightened patrons of this show.
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Appalachian icon Cara Cunningham ("Leave Britney Alone") returns to analyze the story of J.D. Vance, the crises of the land he comes from, the powers and limits of the Mamaw State, and the choice America faces this November.
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Reviewed in this ep: Hillbilly Elegy by J.D. Vance + the 2016 film adaptation directed by Ron Howard and starring Glenn Close
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After a reunion tour of Skid Row, Jared and I dip into the place that invented the French Dip Sandwich -- but how? -- to break bread and reflect on the politics of addiction, free will, and determinism. Location: Philippe's The Original
Jared Klickstein is the author of Crooked Smile: What it Took to Escape a Decade of Homelessness, Addiction, and Crime
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A walking tour of America's most notorious rock bottom junkie town with a man who lived there, almost died there, and miraculously escaped...but how?
Jared Klickstein is the author of Crooked Smile: What it Took to Escape a Decade of Homelessness, Addiction, and Crime
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An editor dies, but a painting comes to life, as I ask the most faithful man I met in Washington how he came to know God at such a young age.
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Drew Bratcher is the author of Bub: Essays from Just North of Nashville Follow him on insta @drewbratcher_writer
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In the presence of America's most beguiling depiction of loneliness, I reunite with the one faithful man who helped me survive the horrors of Washington D.C. -- fourteen years after we last met.
Drew Bratcher is the author of Bub: Essays from Just North of Nashville
Location: Art Institute of Chicago
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My opening monologue to a magical evening in Austin, Texas honoring Nic Pizzolatto and True Detective on its decade anniversary. For the full video conversation and Q&A with Nic, Jack Mason, and the ladies of Temple of Friendship, and a performance by Nic's wife Suzanne Santo, visit Temple of Friendship's patreon. The live event occurred on June 29.
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Ronald Reagan's chief speechwriter and the one advisor who counseled Nixon NOT to resign joins me for a conversation on the secret connection between the two men, the nature of political messaging, The Swamp, and the history-making scenes and secrets revealed in his new memoir Behind Closed Doors: In the Room with Nixon and Reagan.
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A concert adventure with Bob and Willie under the concentric arches of the historic amphitheater "where summer is forever."
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An undecided voter describes his creepy, weird transformation upon the shooting of Donald J. Trump.
Guest starring Nic Dollinger of The Beautiful Toilet and Maryland Free Press
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Bonjour based department: a French politician hops on the air to explain everything we need to know about the political situation in France, the new male sex symbol on the French right, Houellebecq going mask off since being snubbed by the Nobel, and more.
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Making our way through an existential crisis with a little help from the genius who tried to prove the existence of God. Some say he failed. You decide.
Recommended reading: Blaise Pascal's Penseés
With Connor
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ALPHA DOG (Nick Cassavetes, 2006) and BULLY (Larry Clark, 2001) are two crime dramas based on real teen murders -- but only one of them inspired an even worse crime of its own. Botched chad Adam Lehrer joins me to investigate this case of entertainment vs art.
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Adam is the author of Safety Propaganda and host of System of Systems
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All children, except one, grow up.
On the 10th anniversary of the crime that vanquished Neverland, a Chill Detective and I analyze the unanswered questions of My Twisted World: The Story of Elliot Rodger, and attempt to restore at least the memory of the paradise he destroyed...
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On the ten year anniversary of his "Day of Retribution," I trace Elliot Rodger's footsteps at the beautiful college town of Isla Vista Santa Barbara, where I spent my first two years of college in a different kind of incel splendor. Part 1 of 2.
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Three mini episodes from a new regular feature available to Patreon subscribers since December. My history with O.J. Simpson, my review of Curb Your Enthusiasm and its final season, and the online right's answer to the fake humanitarian.
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Jazz, beignets, red robin filets, a liberal vampire and a hunt for the four-word secret of New Orleans...
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Through the driving range, along the greenway, and beside the L.A. River -- a long hello to the life and times of Steve Sailer, the forbidden figure and famous shamus of the San Fernando Valley. Including how he became who he is, the art of noticing, and why America needs more sex drugs and rock n' roll.
Buy Sailer's excellent new book Noticing, out now from Passage Press.
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Three mini episodes from a new regular feature available to Patreon subscribers since December. These are "lived-in" reviews of the Oscar winning travesty Zone of Interest, Nathan Fielder's show The Curse, and the latest season of True Detective.
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How did Cara Cunningham -- who, as "Chris Crocker," became an internet folk hero for urging the world to leave Britney alone -- find her way through MySpace stardom, gay porn, and Canceled Bitch Island to the hallowed Paglian enclave of free women, free men? We discuss.
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"All literature is gossip." A dish-fest on the rise and fall of Truman Capote, the acid fairy of American letters, and the elephant in the closet. With Jack Mason of The Perfume Nationalist, Adam Lehrer of Safety Propaganda, and Zach Langley of I'm So Popular
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With commentary on Feud: Capote vs. The Swans, In Cold Blood, Conversations with Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany's, and Capote: A Biography by Gerald Clarke
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At the penthouse ballroom of the Horseshoe Hotel and Casino, I invite Curtis Yarvin, Delicious Tacos, Astral Flight, Mommy Milkers, Catherine, Vera, Isaac Simpson, Matt Pegan, Garin and everyone else to love Las Vegas, if only for a night.
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How do you grow up in a country where everyone wants you dead -- and escape with the help of Pasolini and Brando? Monica (Temple of Friendship) tells her story.
Reprised with a new intro, in light of recent triumphs and tragedies.
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A dream remembered. Designer Elena Velez discusses the math and aftermath of "Tomorrow Is Another Day," her bombshell Gone With the Wind-themed salon that toppled the media mannequins at NYC fashion week, the cold civil war, and the battle for artistic freedom.
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Before they canceled him, Alfred Hitchcock made a movie about "the birds." Before they canceled her, Camille Paglia wrote an entire book about THE BIRDS. Here's why both are so prophetic of our henpecked times. A gull session with Jack Mason of The Perfume Nationalist on two monumental figures in the Filthy Armenian landscape.
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There is daytime socialism. And there is nighttime socialism. George Orwell narrates a long summer night in Barcelona where a friend and I pursue a very different, but not entirely different, dream than the one that falls to pieces in HOMAGE TO CATALONIA.
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Addressing the "curse" of Alec Baldwin Derangement Syndrome.
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The Mormon has gone clean, but his newfound inner peace meets a challenge in our return to L.A.'s oldest purveyor of soup...
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On January 6, in front of packed house at the Adventurer's Club Los Angeles (est. 1921), we perform a surrogate rebirth of the spirit of Christmas.
With Richard Hanania, Jack Mason (The Perfume Nationalist), Ben Braddock, DJ Gum Arabic, and Santa Claus.
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Wanted. America. Dead or Alive.
Glen Rockney of Rare Candy and The Back Wall joins me for a dance to the haunting tunes and portents of Martin Scorcese's THE LAST WALTZ (1978), a documentary classic about the historic final concert where The Band and friends staged several of the greatest rock performances of all time.
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In memory of Robbie Robertson, Levon Helm, Rick Danko, Richard Manuel, Muddy Waters, Dr. John, Paul Butterfield, Pops Staples, Neil Young, Sonny Boy Williamson, and Ray Charles. In thankfulness to Garth Hudson, Van Morrison, Bob Dylan, Eric Clapton, Mavis Staples, Joni Mitchell, Ringo, and all the other stars at Winterland.
Get your tickets to FAA presents WHITE CHRISTMAS at a hidden historic shrine to adventure in Los Angeles on January 6, a live show and festivity starring Amanda Milius, Richard Hanania, Santa and many other friends of the show.
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F. Scott Fitzgerald died a few steps below Sunset as a broken man and cautionary symbol of what Hollywood can do to your talent and soul. But how true is that fable? Matthew Specktor -- author of Always Crashing in the Same Car: On Art, Crisis & Los Angeles, California and founding editor of the L.A. Review of Books -- joins me on a journey from Fitzgerald's Hayward Ave. apartment to the Westmount Drive home of mercurial screenwriter Carol Eastman, in search of secrets to the shadow stars who aren't so easy to step on.
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Come to LA for our next live adventure and festivity on January 6 at a historic shrine to adventure hidden in the heart of the gold pole. FAA presents WHITE CHRISTMAS Tickets here.
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Returning to the vaudeville theater on the boulevard of crime for the second half of Bob Dylan’s Rough n Rowdy Ways concert and album, the second act of his life, and the fateful question posed by his final American prophesy…
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Come to LA for our next live adventure and festivity on January 6. FAA presents WHITE CHRISTMAS starring Amanda Milius, Richard Hanania, Santa, Ben Braddock, and surprise friends. Tickets here.
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Jumping off the Colorado Street Bridge -- which curves majestically over the Arroyo Secco, one of the driest rivers known to man -- is not as easy as it once was. But don't panic. It's not dark yet. My guest Isaac Simpson has a right wing ad agency that can rebrand your troubles using the ancient power of negative thinking. An adventure of light, lies, and the psyop behind "calamari." If this free episode touches you, please subscribe at patreon.com/filthyarmenian for twice as many adventures, including the most intimate and scandalous ones. Check out Isaac's substack The Carousel Reviews on your podcast app are helpful and much appreciated. Follow us on X/insta @filthyarmenian
Reviewing Chuck Klosterman's recent book THE NINETIES, my guest and I reminisce about -- you guessed it -- The Nineties, until both of us arrive at a state of deep and all-consuming melancholy. The Nineties, that decade where history stopped, maybe to jerk off. How did we let that go? Where did we go so wrong? And most importantly: who can we point our fingers at?? Talkin' bout our generation... Full 3 hour ep for subscribers at patreon.com/filthyarmenian with Scott from St. Louis Follow us on X/insta @filthyarmenian
On International Jihad Day, we find ourselves hunting for answers to horror in the Middle East in the historic hauntfest version of Knott's Berry Farm -- an iconic California theme park with a very important political secret of its own.
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With Jocko Homo and DJ Boytoy
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I crash the home of anti-woke sex symbol Richard Hanania, in many ways the MLK of our time, for a wide-ranging backyard conversation on his life, romances, his new book The Origins of Woke: Civil Rights Law, Corporate America, and the Triumph of Identity Politics...and our aggressive off-white dream to make America fun again.
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In honor of our first live show LOS ANGELES, unlocking a favorite bull session on Joan Didion's landmark SLOUCHING TOWARDS BETHLEHEM (and the odious Netflix documentary about her) with Jack Mason of The Perfume Nationalist.
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It is a dark, dark age. But there are figures in the landscape, filthy particles in the air, and a city that has long served as a map of the apocalypse. Also dolmas. Welcome to the first live Filthy Armenian Adventure.
This is Act 1: Fire, Brimstone, & the Santa Ana Winds featuring Alec Mouhibian and Joan Didion's ghost. For the full magical evening and over 50 other patron-only episodes, subscribe to the show at patreon.com/filthyarmenian
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Act 2: The Nose Knows feat. Jack Mason (The Perfume Nationalist)
Act 3: Celebutante Rape Therapy feat. Adam Lehrer (Safety Propaganda), Matthew Pegas (New Write Pod), and Noemi Castaneda
Act 4: Beauty and the Babitz feat. Mommy Milkers (@Mochak123)
Act 5: The Hard-R Ride of Paul Revere
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A propos of nothing, we explore the deceptions and wonders of female desire as revealed by Oscar Wilde and Richard Strauss's shocking opera SALOME. With Mommy Milkers (the Girl from Baku @mochak123) and Veronica (@our_daily_pain).
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Few tickets remain for the first live Filthy Armenian Adventure LOS ANGELES, this Saturday September 23. With many great friends of the show including the ladies in this episode, Jack Mason of The Perfume Nationalist, Adam Lehrer of Safety Propaganda, and more. Tickets here.
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Splendid dinner with Vera at Scarpetta in Cosmo where we discuss our idiotic generations, the sexual devolution, growing up on social media, paleolesbianism, neopuritanism, transmania, and more while she watches me eat a bowl of pasta.
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After a strangely stormy weekend strands many in the desert, the last lesbian of Las Vegas takes us on a Labor Day tour of a still-eccentric altar of smut in the city of sin, co-founded by pornographer Harry Mohney and preacher the Rev. Ted McIllvenna. If you enjoy this free episode and want to see the show continue, subscribe on patreon.com/filthyarmenian for access to twice as many adventures for as little as $5 a month. Limited tickets are available for FAA presents LOS ANGELES, our first live show & party on September 23, starring show favorites Jack Mason (The Perfume Nationalist), Adam Lehrer, illusionist Garin Hovannisian and more. A night of magic, mirth, fire and brimstone. Get tickets here. Follow us on X/insta @filthyarmenianFollow Vera @lovely_2_c_u
Be careful. There are people out there who can break into you with a wave of the hand. Such as this gay "drunk" cyborg I met in the land of trolls and Ibsen...
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I speak to the owner of Hollywood's last used bookstore, Counterpoint Records & Books (est. 1979) in Franklin Village, on the magic business of second hand books, surviving the apocalypse, famous customers, and keeping the lights on in Los Angeles.
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In the dying days of a great century, a certain love dared speak its name. But there was evil in the tone. We examine The Picture of Dorian Gray, De Profundis, and the starry starry tell-tale life of Oscar Wilde, up to his tragic demise at the hands of an eternal scheming bottom.
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From noir and the western to the utopian world of screwball, where love is anything but love, and Hollywood reached its fairytale peak. Part 2 of my conversation with the film historian/critic/novelist David Thomson is all about being raised by movies, the importance (and occasional hazards) of insanity, and secrets of the moon.
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Story Board: George Bailey, James Stewart, perfect fathers, divorce, Julia Roberts, James Dean, Rock Hudson, Noel Coward, David Lean, Joan Didion’s last act, Virginia Woolf, a writer’s judgment, the loss of the great editor, Bob Gottlieb, Dino DeLaurentis, David Lynch, Blue Velvet, Irving Thalberg, Harvey Weinstein, book industry, Little Shop Around the Corner, Preston Sturges, the big secret, directorial power, Freeway, Spike Lee, Chick Hearn, Pat Riley
David Thomson is the author most recently of the enchanting fiction trilogy SUSPECTS, SILVER LIGHT, and CONNECTICUT.
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One year after our rain dance to conquer the death of cinema, film critic/novelist/historian David Thomson welcomes me back for a dreamy convo about the spiritual treasures and booby traps of noir, the western, and the screwball comedy -- three worlds of movieland he has realized and reinvented in his enchanting fiction trilogy SUSPECTS, SILVER LIGHT, and the upcoming CONNECTICUT.
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Story Board:
Willa Cather, Irene Selznick, black and white, Billy The Kid, Wyatt Earp, Tarantino, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (the last great western), Shirtless Pitt, Robert Towne, Heaven’s Gate, the self-expression of driving, light therapy, the importance of addiction, sports, San Francisco, gold rush, Red River, Searchers, Noah Cross, Trump, Chinatown, John Huston, Wes Anderson, Mullholland Dr., Montgomery Clift, A Place in the Sun, Elizabeth Taylor, the problem with Paul Newman, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Sydney Lumet, Otto Preminger, Eddie Mueller, Raymond Chandler vs James Ellroy, The Big Sleep, Didion, Babitz, studio system, film set romance
Welcome to the cemetery of restless dreams. Where artists and businessmen still compete for your attention. Where many stars are buried, but their illusions can still be heard. Matthew Pegan (The New Write) and I interrogate the cast members of Hollywood Forever (est. 1899).
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The Cast: Phil Ramone, Hatte McDaniel, Tyrone Power, Burt Reynolds, Cecil B. Demille, Dee Dee Ramone, Eddie Little, Jack Nitzsche, John Huston, Mel Blanc, Judy Garland, Mickey Rooney, Estelle Getty, Toto, Bugsy Siegel, Rudolph Valentino, Richard Saakovich Der Boghossian, et al.
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Via Rough and Rowdy Ways, Bob Dylan arrives at the Pantages Theater on Hollywood Blvd to reveal who he is, and make America great again.
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As I take a few extra days to prepare my bombshell Bob Dylan adventure, allow me to introduce my other podcast THE BACK WALL, a raunchy and reactionary psychedelic sports show I co-host with Glen Rockney of Rare Candy fame. This is our most popular episode so far, and you need no interest or knowledge of sports at all to care about it. It features one of the biggest media/legal scandals of the century, one that most people assume to be legit. The ep features John Ziegler, former LA talk radio host and the central character in David Foster Wallace's excellent feature story The Host, who torpedoed his career to prove that ex Penn State coach Jerry Sandusky is innocent.
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The power of love, the power of hate, the power of private dancing. Adam Lehrer joins for a bull session memorial of FAA goddess Tina Turner, and to recount his chilling experience with a ghost in New England. We also discuss exciting developments in the avant-garde publishing scene, and how to transcend the internet-addled creative doldrums of our time to actually make something real, with examples from his most recent book Safety Propaganda: Conceptual Manifesto for Psychological Warfare. Plus Bob Dylan, Lou Reed, Fleetwood Mac, evil, and more.
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Hippie sermons in the desert. Zoomers cancel Blink182. The hipster devolves from rock n roll to useless lib nag. Not Star Wars, but Spiderman explains the end of things. Pirates aren't what they used to be, but one old man still Claptons for freedom. See something, say something. Those who do/do not remember the past are doomed to repeat it.
My neck.
My back.
With one or two magic moments, Coachella 2023 comes to a close.
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One week and one year later, the holograms have taken over. I return to Coachella to fill in for Frank Ocean, remember Ruth Brown, reminisce to Calvin Harris, and seek the one weapon in this world that can thwart the K-POP invasion.
Weekend 2, 2023.
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Water communism, bathroom feminism, FOMO and other dyslexic prophesies from a popular desert festival that was lost and found in deuces wild. Plus a news update on the state of bisexual affairs. For the full episode, and many more exclusive delights, subscribe to Filthy Armenian Adventures at patreon.com/filthyarmenian for as little as $5 a month.
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Amid our long cultural intermission, the greatest ever critic and historian of ROCK & ROLL welcomes me into his home for an afternoon reverie on some of our favorite music artists and their covers of the American Dream.
Greil Marcus was the very first records editor of Rolling Stone and the author of critical masterpieces Mystery Train and Lipstick Traces, as well as several other books including The History of Rock n Roll in Ten Songs and most recently Folk Music: A Bob Dylan Biography in 7 Songs. His famous long-running column now appears on Substack.
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Can we enjoy the things we hate? What if one of them brought us closer to our mothers? And gave our friends a place to hang out, not just for a minute, not just for an hour, but for afternoons of always? Today we plunge into the deepest darkest pit of one child's trauma: the DEPARTMENT STORE. Several department stores, and a Bath&Bodyworks, at a gulf-state sized mall called THE DOMAIN. It's for perfume this time, not for dreaded garments, but the timelessness of the DEPARTMENT STORE, as timeless as the old time diner we eat in beforehand, makes the aura of chthonian meandering traumatically familiar. The man-child has hope. Because this is Texas, and Texas has rhythms that can overcome trauma. For the full 4.5 hour Linklaterly adventure, and 40 other premium episodes, subscribe at patreon.com/filthyarmenian for only $5 a month. Guest Starring: Sister, Jack Mason of The Perfume Nationalist, & Jocko
I have a few words to say about Scott Adams, Dilbert creator, getting canceled at last for a kamikaze strike on the Church of Racism. To hear them all, subscribe for the full episode at patreon.com/filthyarmenian.
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There's no such thing as black and white, says the clever Scottish salesman. We're all just doing our best on the gray scale. Should you find yourself surfing that scale, serving customers at a fancy restaurant, here are some tips on how to make them order the special -- and convince them they enjoyed it. We hope YOU enjoy this seven course debate between two differing political views, served rare, with no anger, snobbery, or hard feelings of any kind. Appetizer supplied by our new sponsor, One Small Voices, on the censorship rages involving Hume, Dahl, James Bond and Sherlock Holmes. And for dessert: an intervention by Martin McDonagh.
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I hit the Vegas tables with roulette mystic Glenn Greenwald to make some bets, spot cheaters, lay it on the line and try to decipher his highly successful system for beating the House. FULL EPISODE NOW UNLOCKED, in honor of our mutual birthday. For 40 other premium episodes and secret chapters, including twice as many each month, subscribe at patreon.com/filthyarmenian to support the show.
Glenn Greenwald is the co-founder of The Intercept, host of the Rumble show System Update, and author most recently of Securing Democracy and No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Surveillance State. Follow him on Twitter @ggreenwald
Location: The Mirage Resort & Casino - Las Vegas, Nevada
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Of Bowling, Of Alcoholism, Of Shame, Of ADHD, Of The Glory of Autism, Of The Touchstones of Camille Paglia and Ayn Rand, Of Susan Sontag, Of Philip Roth, Of The Painting That Hangs In The Bathroom at Madonna's House, Of Shepherd's Pie, Of Magic Mic...and Of That Sinister Word PARASOCIAL. You've got a friend in me.
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Abject lowlifes at the University of Edinburgh cancelled its most important alumnus, its one intellectual giant, the enlightenment philosopher who put the city on the map. His name is off the big tower. His statue sits defaced. David Hume's crime: a racist footnote in 1756. Let's sneak over the cobblestones of essays moral political and literary in the middle of the night, while everyone in town's asleep, and find out what these idiots are missing (or are they right and must I disavow???) -- and whether straight men can be friends. Enjoy this free episode. For Part II next week, and 40 other episodes that are only available to patrons, please subscribe at patreon.com/filthyarmenian to follow the full, twisted adventure for only $5 a month. Follow us on twitter/instagram @filthyarmenian If you like what you hear, please rate, review, and spread the word!
Two infidels meet in Liverpool. Sir n' TERH is on the menu, "gay mosques" are fathomed, closets spaces compared, brawny fire wardens appreciated, roid horrors told, yer blues dispensed, fatwas doubtlessly incurred. Guest starring "Greek Cypriot Libertarian and perfumed poofter" Teddy de Chypre For the full 4 hour night, and nearly 40 other exclusive episodes, subscribe at patreon.com/filthyarmenian for only $5 month to take part in the full, twisted adventure through our cultural apocalypse.
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Feeling severed from the world? Trapped inside your own hundred acre wood? Tie your shoes. On this tour, we go in circles around a city where nothing is lost that can't be found, where nothing is erased without imprint. We wander story-laden streets, peek down literary alleys, poke our heads into sing-song pubs. We remember tunes. To signal traffic in the narrative chaos, we trust the time-honored cues of the theater. We discuss a movie about a real place that doesn't exist. To make a new and greater map of reality, every tea leaf must be read... With Yeerk, host of Bistro Californium For the SECRET CHAPTER from this adventure and a spiritually relevant SIDE QUEST episode, plus over 30 other exclusive episodes, subscribe to us at Patreon.com/filthyarmenian for only $5 a month. Follow us on twitter/instagram @filthyarmenianPlease rate, review, and spread the word. Sightings: Beowolf, Edmund Spenser, Shakespeare, Alexander Pope, Jane Austen, Charlotte Bronte, George Eliot, Arthur Conan Doyle, Max Beerbohm, D.H. Lawrence, Ian Fleming, Evelyn Waugh, Charles Dickens, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Rabindranath Tagore, Somerset Maugham, Agatha Christie, David Suchet, Philip Larkin, H.L. Mencken, London, Orbitals, The Perfume Nationalist, I'm So Popular, Ambrose Bierce, Noel Coward, P.G. Wodehouse, Michael Morecock, Captain Beefheart, Katherine Mansfield, William Blake, Invisible Republic, The Armenians
Still dark, still wet, still cloudy. The tarot on America reads ambivalent. A "reconstructed being" named Carlos seeks to find my Why? outside The Eagle Bar in Silverlake at 2 AM. Exorcisms can be heard. The wheels of a BMW are screeching. A psychic break is coming, the tarot bishop says. Carlos hugs. But can he connect? Is there anything for him to connect to?? Is Al Green really there??? To listen to the full organic street drama, and follow the complete twisted adventure with 30 other subscriber-only episodes, subscribe at patreon.com/filthyarmenian for only $5 a month. Follow us on twitter and instagram @filthyarmenian
Nathan Fielder hits a new level of reality in his must-watch HBO show The Rehearsal, and this time, his comic contraptions can offer no escape. Zach Langley from I'm So Popular joins me to dissect the artistic controversies around the show, the horrific man-woman-Alex Jones revelations from it that nobody has discussed yet, its predecessor Nathan for You, our own related experiments with the fabric of reality, and Zach's prophetic reality tv debut as a preteen guru of camp on Strange Days with Bob Saget.
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Midnight approaches in the city that never ends. Someone says it's raining like cats and dogs. The most monogamous man in West Hollywood tries to watch a college football game as a bartender from his past serves Vertigo. Kim Novak is dead, but another fine dame recognizes the casting agent who placed her in a movie neither can remember. On Broadway, a Filthy Armenian seeks the kindness of strangers. When he finds it, a spooky concert rings through downtown. The full 2 hour episode is for subscribers only. To listen to that and over 30 other exclusive adventures, subscribe at patreon.com/filthyarmenian Locations: HiTops West Hollywood, Botega Louie West Hollywood, Downtown, The Globe Theatre Follow us on twitter/instagram @filthyarmenian
You might have been too young to remember, but I was not. Nor was Oriana. Nor Ayn. Nor Leonard. Nor Edward Hopper, master of windows...and the aspiring widows inside. What does the silence tell us now?
With photographer Matt Denicola, host of The Salt Box
Locations: Zaza Diner, Ground Zero 9/11 Memorial, The Mall, Edward Hopper's New York
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Old-school Hollywood psychologist — and author of "The Young Man's Guide to Demystifying the 21st Century Female" (unpublished) — delivers my first full horoscope reading and teaches me how to dominate the fairer sex.
Intro by Filthy Santa.
Location: North Hollywood, California
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In a day or two Filthy Santa will return to deliver his annual address as the intro to our next adventure, but here is last year's address (an early listener fave from Episode 4: Hollywood and the Middle East) for those who might have missed it.
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Everything you need to know about Elon Musk's Twitter war, Kanye's Christian swastika, White Lotus season 2, straights vs gays and hopeful insanity vs eternal cope in the final state of 2022. Plus my own personal White Lotus near-murder in NYC. With Jack Mason of The Perfume Nationalist
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A plot-twist about the previous night's magical evening of erotic adventure leads to a brutal autopsy of sexual rejection, bicuriosity, and other stupid bullsh*t of the heart.
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Location: Hamburg, Germany
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A casual date at a bar in Hamburg takes a tantalizing turn when it’s interrupted by a Dutch blonde masc bro lawyer, hoping to make the most of his last night in town...
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Location: Hamburg, Germany
I have a dream. A hot, steamy, sultry summer dream. In it there are lots of naked Germans, Leonard Cohen and Diana Ross. Also my friend Christian, and the seeds of a sexual revolution.
Location: Munich, Germany.
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Freethinking lesbian writer Norah Vincent quit the punditry game to go undercover and investigate what it's really like to be a man in America. What she discovered eventually killed her. But her bombshell book, Self-Made Man (2006), though promptly memoryholed as its ominous warnings about the gender wars came to pass, survives as a prescient model of honest journalism and feminism for men. Jack Mason of The Perfume Nationalist and Salomé of Twitter join me for an Art Right Halloween Pride Parade in honor of the book and its author, who committed suicide in July.
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Harry Tafoya and I were first-responders to the cultural terrorist attack launched on our nation in the form of the 2022 Whitney Biennale. Will we suffocate in the rubble? Or can we carve a way out of the apocalypse hole and back to a place where art and life matter again?
Then can we do it all over again because footage of the original journey disappeared...
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Location: Whitney Museum of American Art - New York, New York
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A lived experience review of the Halloween franchise becomes a strawberry blonde-haunted road into the origins of the horror fetish, aided by the footprints at Grauman's Chinese, the drunks at The Roosevelt Hotel, Liz Taylor's secret and Ru Paul's Hollywood star. For the full (3.5 hour) episode, subscribe at patreon.com/filthyarmenian
Locations: Grauman's Chinese Theater, Hollywood Boulevard, The Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel, 25 Degrees diner, Hollywood and Highland parking lot Starring John Parks and introducing Jocko Homo Follow us on twitter/insta @filthyarmenian If you like what you hear, please rate, review, and spread the word.
Bad art, good art, mom art, pop art. Can the abstract expressions, conceptual provocations, and preternaturally perky tits of Edward Hopper's 78-year old wife restore our innocence before it gets shattered again at the Biennale down below? Art critic Harry Tafoya and I attempt to forge a lost masterpiece among The Whitney's permanent collection.
Location: Whitney Museum of American Art - New York, NY
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How do you grow up in a country where everyone wants you dead — and escape with the help of Pasolini and Marlon Brando? "Mommy Milkers" Moche tells her story.
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Location: On the air
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What, exactly, is Dimes Square? Is it the most problematic neighborhood in all of New York, as countless thinkpieces from journalistic outlet writers have claimed? Or is it proof through the night...of something else? The truth may shock you. My latest:
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Location: Clandestino, TIME restaurant, Clockwork Bar - Chinatown, New York City
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A "lived experience" review of Andrew Dominik's Blonde, fresh out of the Laemmle Noho theater, following a reading of Ayn Rand's righteous celebration of Marilyn Monroe published two weeks after her death. For the full (1:45) episode, subscribe at patreon.com/filthyarmenian
Location: North Hollywood, California
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With Armenia under attack, I embark on a solo tour of its haunted joyous capital city of Yerevan, taking measure of my people, their shadows, and the competing illusions this city is known to spawn.
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A manic Vegas tango through libertarian lore and gore with longtime Reason Magazine editor Nick Gillespie, following a circle dance with controversial pornographer John "Buttman" Stagliano, the last man to be indicted on obscenity charges in the United States. Would he cast AOC? To follow the complete twisted adventure, subscribe at patreon.com/filthyarmenian for access to over 20 secret chapter episodes including "Anarchy at Freedomfest," where I talk to the FreedomFest co-founder JoAnne Skousen and other characters from the largest libertarian festival in the world 18 years after I last attended.
Location: The Mirage Hotel and Casino Nick Gillespie is currently the host of The Reason Interview podcast. Follow him online @nickgillespie and follow us @filthyarmenian Please do spread the word if you like what you hear.
I hit the Vegas tables with Glenn Greenwald to make some bets, spot cheaters, lay it on the line and try to decipher his highly successful system for beating the House. For the full episode and other secret chapters from the twisted adventure, subscribe at patreon.com/filthyarmenian
Location: The Mirage Resort & Casino - Las Vegas, Nevada
Glenn Greenwald is the author most recently of Securing Democracy and No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Surveillance State. Follow him on Twitter @ggreenwald and subscribe to his substack at greenwald.substack.com
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Son of the Old Left, father of the New Left, sworn enemy of the whole left -- "a century from now," in the words of Camille Paglia, "cultural historians will find David Horowitz's political and spiritual odyssey paradigmatic for our time." We gallop to the Rockies to catch up with the historic writer-warrior as he confronts his most powerful enemy yet...
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Location: Parker, Colorado
Recommended reading: Radical Son: A Generational Odyssey and Mortality & Faith: Reflections on a Journey Through Time by David Horowitz
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Summoning H.L. Mencken to diagnose and exorcise the latest national bout of puritan brain fog so we can all have a free and idiotic summer. With Jack Mason of The Perfume Nationalist and Barrett Avner of Contain. This is the free first hour, for the full 2.5 (and many other intimate premium episodes) subscribe at patreon.com/filthyarmenian
Recommended reading: "Puritanism as a Literary Force" essay by H.L. Mencken
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Local bard Berto (Ghost Jail), justice of the peace Illych (Chicago Transplant Authority), Texan noseman Jack Mason (The Perfume Nationalist), and transplant scholar Boystown George drink every drop of sex, politics, and religion in that deep Chicago night in search of a cure. This is Part 1: "I Wish My Mom Was Michael Jackson." For the full 3.5 hour nocturnal extravaganza, subscribe at patreon.com/filthyarmenian
Location: Cheesie's, Wang's, Sidetrack, The Closet, and other unidentified corners of Boystown in Chicago, Illinois.
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After hitting rock bottom atop the Ferris Wheel in Vienna, I go underground for my first ever adventure in a gay bathhouse. A few days later, I try to explain what happened — so that my friend, listening at a war bar in Sarajevo, will understand me. A history lesson unfolds in this long-hidden FAA pilot. (Only the intro is free, the full episode is for Patreon subscribers and adults only. Become one at patreon.com/filthyarmenian)
Locations: Vienna, Austria and Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina Follow on Twitter/Insta @filthyarmenian
Four visits with America's most famous rabbi and "one of the 50 most influential Jews in the world" to see what’s up, ask what’s it like, and examine the facts of The Case. David Wolpe is the author of Why Faith Matters, Making Loss Matter, and most recently, David: The Divided Heart.
Location: Sinai Temple, Wilshire Boulevard.
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Jack returns from The Perfume Nationalist to ponder what is wrong with Joan Didion, what is depressing beyond belief about that Netflix documentary that memed her, and what rings true and timeless and based and redpilled about her classic book Slouching Towards Bethlehem (1968), written when she was a Goldwater girl with a little secret.
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Communist pizza, libertarian hotdogs, Hitler-Stalin lovemaking and other shocking scenes pass us by as Thaddeus Russell (author of A Renegade History of the United States) gives me a tour of his politically-charged boyhood in Berkeley until we stumble upon the one question no revolutionary mama wants to face.
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I visit David Thomson — author of the iconic Biographical Dictionary of Film, Have You Seen...?, Sleeping With Strangers: How the Movies Shaped Desire, Disaster Mon Amour, and dozens of other books that make him the greatest film critic/historian/writer who ever lived — at his home in San Francisco for a very personal conversation about the horrifying erotic aftermath of MeToo and how to escape, or transcend, the "death of cinema."
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SHOT LIST: Ukraine, Life in the Pandemic, Sight & Sound, Licorice Pizza, Los Angeles, The Academy, Long form television, Golden Age of Streaming, Twin Peaks The Return, Podcasts , Criterion, His Girl Friday, Will there be a new Biographical Dictionary of Film edition?, The Trilogy, Pauline Kael the bully (power drunk), Chelsea vs Liverpool, The democratic brotherhood of sports and movies, Bridgette Bardot’s nude scene, The reality of sexual desire, promiscuity, James Toback, The reality of women, The Big Sleep, Montgomery Clift’s sexuality, Kieran Hickey, Spencer Tracy’s sexuality, Beard marriages, Kevin Spacey
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Shant Mesrobian is the most devastating critic of media discourse in America and co-creator, with Zaid Jilani, of the substack INQUIRE. But how did he go from founding and running the liberal watchdog outlet Media Matters in 2004 to becoming one of its greatest enemies today? To find out, I met Shant at Presidio Park, an elevated cliffside landmark with some very singular views of...Alcatraz. The second chapter of my San Francisco Quartet is a story about being yanked from a dream, even though you never fell asleep.
Sights: San Francisco, Real World MTV, Gary V, Trading Card Business, Red Pill Diaries, The View, Norm Macdonald, Louis CK, Patrice O’Neal, September 11, Antiwar patriotism, Media Matters, MoveOn dot org, Ron Paul’s shortcomings, Bernie 2016, The Onion, Babylon Bee, Jon Stewart / Colbert / Chappelle, Talk radio, NPR, CSPAN Book TV, David Frum, Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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Jack from The Perfume Nationalist hops back on the air to examine French troublemaker Michele Houellebecq's rich and hilarious novels "Elementary Particles" (1998) and "Submission" (2015) for clues as to the long slow decline of the western LIBido. This is the first hour preview, for the full three hour bull session (and plenty of other premium episodes) subscribe to our Patreon at patreon.com/filthyarmenian
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Chaos? Planned Parenthood? A damn fine cup of coffee? Something is happening here and we don’t know what it is. AGAIN. So 55 years after Joan Didion slouched there, Glen Rockney -- of the podcasts Rare Candy and The Back Wall -- and I go hunting for hippies at the Haight.
Location: Haight-Ashbury / Golden Gate Park / Grubstake Diner - San Francisco, CA
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INT. HOLLYWOOD'S OLDEST RESTAURANT - NIGHT: Dinner with a very innocent Casting Director to discuss the sorely-missed casting couch, bad actors, and the general state of pretending in America leads to...a shocking revelation. Location: Musso & Frank Grill, 6669 Hollywood Blvd., est 1919
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The very coincidental moment war breaks out in Ukraine, unleashing tidal waves of propaganda and fake sentiment across the globe, Aimee Terese jumps on the wire for a deep discussion on the hatred at the heart of so much "humanitarianism," inspired by Max Scheler's important book "Ressentiment" (1912). This is the first hour preview. For the full 4 hours, subscribe to our Patreon at patreon.com/filthyarmenian
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I meet Amanda Milius — director of the bestselling documentary The Plot Against The President — at the cradle of rock n' roll, of Hollywood love and loathing, and the unpredictable sources of rebel-warrior conservatism.
Location: Sunset Marquis Hotel - West Hollywood, CA
Liner notes: College Republicans, Bill Maher, gay warehouse parties, Brietbart, Matt Drudge, Columbo, Tarantino, smoking bans, making movies beyond Hollywood, Bob Dylan’s triumph over emotion, Oriana Fallaci, Elizabeth Taylor’s Iranian affair, Lawrence of Arabianism, Somerset Maugham, Dasha Nekrasova, Brett Easton Ellis.
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Another deep, wild, visceral powwow through the night with Jack Mason of The Perfume Nationalist as we discuss dogs and finding God in our 20s, Camille Paglia's mysterious love life, the phenomenon of Twitter groupchats, the irritating delusion of female innocence, and many other topics tailored perfectly for a Valentine's Day cancel reel. First hour here, full 4 hour session only on our Patreon.
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Every eulogy is an attempt at resurrection. Art critic Harry Tafoya joins me on a trip to "Emerald Bay" to remember Eve Babitz, the recently departed guardian angel of Los Angeles, at the setting of her most harrowing tale. Cobb salads with Roquefort, MAGA art galleries, and a sunset free of art and thought mark this memorial of an underrated literary queen.
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Popping the champagne with Jack Mason (@lotus__point) to celebrate the big news about his trailblazing podcast The Perfume Nationalist and dissect the art and future of podcasting, the trendy habits of podcast-hating, the perils of anonymity, his book contract, and the momentous fork in the 2022 cultural road. First hour free, full 2:40 episode on Patreon only. Subscribe for that and much more. Follow us on Twitter/Insta @filthyarmenian
TV was once essential to feeling part of the American family. What happened? The latest sitcom star cancellation breaks the moment I sit down at Joe's Coffee with Rob Long, to discuss what’s going on behind the scenes of showbiz since his days as head writer and producer of Cheers.
Rob Long is the author of Conversations With My Agent and Set Up, Joke, Set Up, Joke, the syndicated radio show/podcast Martini Shot, co-host of The Ricochet Podcast, writes a column for Commentary Magazine, and is a regular guest on the Greg Gutfeld Show. Since Cheers, he's co-created or executive produced a half dozen shows including George and Leo (starring Bob Newhart), Sullivan & Son, and Kevin Can Wait (starring Kevin James).
Location: Joe's Coffee / West Village, New York City
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Being the Ricardos, Jeff Garlin, Roseanne, Jeffrey Tambor, Ted Dansen, Golden Girls, I Love Lucy, Licorice Pizza, Paul Thomas Anderson, Phantom Thread, John C. Reilly, John Carradine, Miller’s Crossing, John Turtoro, William H. Macy, Getting the Cheers gig, David Suchet, Hercule Poirot
Adam Lehrer — author of the new book Communions, "an attempt to probe the haunting singularity of opiate addiction and its ineradicable influence on art and culture," host of the System of Systems podcast, and curator of the digital magazine Safety Propaganda — guides us through a new opening at "no gallery" in the filthy art scene of lower Manhattan, where fragments of drugs, conspiracy, gossip, cancel outrage, and memories of Michael Jackson may or may not lead to something real.
Location: no gallery / Clockwork Bar / Chinatown / New York City
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After a Christmas party of naughty Twitter people ends in chaos, I attempt to wiggle out of any traumatic memories that may occur to @Howlingmutant0 (master comedic id of Twitter) by taking him shopping at the historic FAO Schwarz and Barnes & Noble on Fifth Ave., NYC
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In L.A.’s last 24 hour diner, a glorious chocolate milkshake goes down — and the calipers come out. Let us compare many Arabs, and figure out exactly why the Egyptians are the funniest people on earth. This episode is introduced by special guest Santa Clause and co-stars Filthy Egyptian @Marv_adel
Location: Astro Family Restaurant, Silverlake
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Follow us on Twitter and Instagram @filthyarmenian Sights: Santa Claus, Police pull-over, Mexican cops, Izzy’s, The Pantry, Mayor Dick Riordan, Gladstone’s 4 Fish, JR’s BBQ, free peanuts, Long Beach, Fred 62, House of Pies, Carney’s, Mel’s, Griddle Cafe, Being Egyptian, Egyptians are the best people, Lebanese, Arabia High, Police in Egypt, love, mugged in Cairo, prison torture, hot Armenians, frat bros, male affection, bros sharing hoes, 911, Christian minorities, Islamic fundamentalism, the female scarf, socialism, ACAB, nudes, Middle Eastern comedy, transgender Arab, milkshake machine, Jordan Peele, stereotypes, SNL
When genocide survivor Vorabur visits his hometown of Van for the first time in 90 years, everything has changed, except for...
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Who's doing better, Louis CK or the world? We catch up with the filthy red comedian at the very spot we last saw him right before his exile from polite society, find some naked hot wings, and chart a little tour of the SUQ (Stand-Up Question).
Location: Long Beach Terrace Theatre, and Hooters
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Filthy Armenian becomes a pop-up Apostolic priest to officiate the wedding of his sister. To listen to the full bonus episode, and gain access to other extra-intimate premium episodes, subscribe to our Patreon at www.patreon.com/filthyarmenian
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Step away from the demons and dirtbags, the persecutors and prosecutors for a trip down the Filthy Mormon Trail with a very unorthodox latter day saint and a lot of hot soup.
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Courses: soup, the art world, California Conceptualism, John Baldasari, Jackson Pollock, BYU, college sex, leaving L.A., boring nature, podcasting listening, high school, gay Mormons, Democrat Party, Catholics, Scientology, Las Vegas, Cosmopolitan Hotel, Wayne Newton, The Eiffel Tower, victimhood, poker, God, death, atheists, Harry Tafoya, The L.A. Bus
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A very special guest joins me to revisit the fateful weekend in 2002 when we first met Stephen Cox, the "filthy professor" from Adventure #1, at a Cato Institute Agatha Christie weekend. This episode is for patrons only. To listen to the whole thing, and gain access to bonus episodes about each upcoming Adventure, subscribe at patreon.com/filthyarmenian
Location: Little Armenia, Hollywood Boulevard, Desert Rose
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The Santa Ana Winds are met by a magical storm, spurring an OG Filthy Armenian Adventure to San Diego to shoot the breeze with old friend and literary guidepost Stephen Cox, the author of The Titanic Story, American Christianity, The Big House: Life and Reality in the American Prison, The New Testament and Literature: A Guide to Literary Patterns, and The Woman and the Dynamo: Isabel Paterson and the Idea of America, and editor of Liberty Magazine.
Location: Greek restaurant formerly known as Aesop's Tables
Sights discussed: Joan Didion, Raymond Chandler, Eve Babitz, Columbo, Northern Exposure, Twin Peaks, South Park, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Gone with the Wind, Nick at Nite, Gaslight, Angela Lansbury’s three acts, The Picture of Dorian Gray movie, George Sanders, GWTW screenplay and first screening story, Armenia’s revolution, Another Round, Le Grand Bouffet, Little Shop Around the Corner, Shadow of a Doubt, Rebecca, The Fountainhead, The New Yorker, salt, Elmer Gantry, Dr. Fauci, Los Angeles, Australia, New Zealand, masks, Isabel Paterson, Ayn Rand, A Star is Born, The Mission Inn, The Reptile Factory, Jehova’s Witnesses, podcasting, cults, Mormon Church, God of the Machine, Walter Lippmann, National Review, Louis Aulchincloss, Ruth Suckow, Eva Marie Saint, William F. Buckley, Gore Vidal.
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