Filthy Armenian Adventures

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 Yor...

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.   If you like what you hear, subscribe at patreon.com/filthyarmenian for the full immersive cultural adventure, including recent patron-only episodes The Dimes of Our Lives, The Blonde Pill feat. Ayn Rand (a "lived experience" review of Andr...

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: For the full 4 hour episode, subscribe at patreon.com/filthyarmenian. You'll also get access to over 2 dozen other secret chapters.     Featuring...

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    Follow us on twitter/insta @filthyarmenian Follow John @telepathydarty Follow Nich...

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.   To follow the full twisted adventure, subscribe at patreon.com/filthyarmenian for "Disillusioned With Democracy," the secret chapter from this episode, plus over 20 other patron-only episodes. Follow...

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...

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...

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...   To follow the complete adventure, subscri...

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" e...

Local bard Berto ( Ghost Jail ), justice of the peace Illych ( Chicago Transplant Authority ), and Texas noseman Jack Mason ( The Perfume Nationalist ) 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:...

Enter the dark room, but go with a friend...The long-hidden FAA pilot.   This is only the preface, the full episode is for Patreon subscribers and adults only. Become one at patreon.com/filthyarmenian   Locations: KAISERBRÜNDL Herrensauna Vienna, Austria and a bar in Sarajevo, Bosnia   Follow us on twitter/instagram @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.    Experience the complete adventure by subscribing at patreon.c...

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.   This is the first hour only. To listen to the whole thing,...

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 save him "thousands on therapy" and stumble upon the one question no revolutionary mama wants to face.   Part Four of the San Francisco Quartet. If you l...

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...

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...

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/fil...

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   If you like what you hear, subscribe to p...

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   If you like what you hear, subscribe at patreon.com/filthyarmenian to access the bonus EXTRA SCENE that unpa...

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/fi...

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 ban...

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 ....

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.   If you like what you hear, become a P...

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. Fo...

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/po...