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Based in Los Angeles, California, FILTHY ARMENIAN ADVENTURES is a travel agency for the soul that takes you all over the map of our cultural apocalypse and deep into its most forbidden and forgotten territories. Where no topic is taboo. Where no personality is too extreme. Where the past is never past, the present’s always present, and the Santa Ana Winds are always blowing. Where the most enchanting public or private figures in our landscape are dared to abandon their masks and join a Filth ...
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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. For 10+ of these a month, plus over twice as many feature episodes, subscribe to he show at patreon.com…
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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. For the full 2.5 hour episode -- plus over twice the adventures and regular "sm…
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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 For full 3 hour episode -- and twice as many adventures, plus regular mini "smoke break" e…
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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. For the full 1.5 hour episode, twice as many feature adventures, and regular "smoke break" mini eps, subscribe…
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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. For twice as many adventures (including the most intimate and scandalous ones) and 10+ "smoke break" mini episodes a mo…
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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. To support the show and get access to twice as many adventures, plus several intimate "s…
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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. For the full 2.45 hou…
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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. For the full 2.5 hour episode -- and over twice as many adventures as well as exclusive daily …
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Addressing the "curse" of Alec Baldwin Derangement Syndrome. For twice as many adventures plus regular bite-size "smoke breaks" and heads up on next live event, subscribe to the.show at patreon.com/filthyarmenian Follow us on X/insga @filthyarmenian Take moment to review and rate the show wherever you listen, it helps.…
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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... To follow the full twisted adventure, subscribe to the show at patreon.com/filthyarmenian for over twice as many episodes. Please rate and review the show wherever you listen, and follow us on X/insta @filthyarmenian…
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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. For the full 2.5 hour episode -- and twice as many adventures overall, plus regular bite size "s…
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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. For the full 2.5 hour episode…
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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 Fi…
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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… For twice as many adventures, including an upcoming episode on The Last Waltz and Volume One of this episode, please support…
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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, l…
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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…
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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. For the full 2.5 hour adventure -- and twice as many eps overall, including the most intimate and scandalous ones…
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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. To support the show an…
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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. For many more like this and access to twice as many adventures, including the most intimate and scandalous ones and our first …
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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 evenin…
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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). If this free episode "touches" you please support the show by subscribing on patreon.com/filthyarmenian and get access …
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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. For the full episode, and access to over 50 other patron-only adventures, support the show by subscribing at patre…
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Is Las Vegas the last city where lesbians are born? A Las' Lesbian takes me on a tour of the still moderately woke-free Erotic Heritage Museum, an eccentric altar of smut co-founded by a preacher and pornographer in the city of sin. If you enjoy this free episode and want to see the show continue, subscribe on patreon.com/filthyarmenian for access …
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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... Enjoy this free episode and become a patron at patreon.com/filthyarmenian to access over twice as many, including last week's intimate secret ep The Book Buyer's Bedroom and a forthcoming di…
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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. Enjoy this free episode and access double the adventures (including last week's "Oscar Wilde at Heart…
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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. Guest starring Jack Mason (The Perfume Nationalist) and Zach Langley …
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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. The full, intimate …
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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 LIG…
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Welcome to the cemetery of restless dreams. Where poets and businessmen, Jews and Armenains still vie for your attention. Where many stars are buried, waiting for you to rediscover (or join) them. Matthew Pegan (The New Write) and I interrogate the illusions Hollywood Forever (est. 1899). This is a preview of the monologue only. For the full 2+ hou…
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From the fancy old stage of the last vaudeville theater on a boulevard of crime, Bob Dylan reveals who he is, and how to make America great again. For the upcoming Volume 2 and dozens of other subscriber-only episodes, join the rug merchants, cigar singers, and oligarchs of the night who support the show at patreon.com/filthyarmenian for as little …
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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 …
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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…
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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 nec…
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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. Enjoy this free episode. For part 1 and the upcoming part 3 of the Coachella trilogy, plus dozens mo…
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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…
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To some, it is paradise. To me, it is the deepest darkest pit of childhood fear and boyhood loathing, Longhouse HQ, symbol sight & sound of chthonian meandering maternal schemes. Can the circle be unbroken? Two of my favorite boys in the world take me to THE DOMAIN of the trauma beast (after a pit stop at diner heaven) on this Linklatery Texas-fore…
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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. There are now 40 episodes available exclusively to my "rug merchant" patrons, and at least two new ones each month. See us on twitter an…
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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 …
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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 patre…
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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. Full episode only for subscribers.…
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Abject lowlifes at the University of Edinburgh canceled 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 …
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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 exclusiv…
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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 navigate inconvenient sympathies.…
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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, a tarot bishop says. All Carlos can do is hug. But can he connect? Is Al Green real…
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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. Is it a joke? Is it art? Is it...okay? 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 …
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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…
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Windows on the World 9/11 Ground Zero Oriana Fallaci Edward Hopper's New York. A tale of silence and fury, signifying something. Guest starring Matt Denicola, host of The Salt Box Locations: Zaza Diner, Ground Zero 9/11 Memorial, The Mall, The Whitney Museum - New York, NY If you like what you hear, subscribe on patreon.com/filthyarmenian to follow…
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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 For the full twisted adventure, subscribe on patreon.com/filthyarmenian…
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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. To follow the full twisted adventure, subscribe at patreon.com/filthyarmenian for 30+ exclusive episodes…
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