Filthy Armenian Adventures

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.   For the full 2+ hour episode as well as part one, subscribe to the show at patreon.com/filthyarmenian   Pre-order the much-ant...

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   For the full 90 minutes -- as well as next week's part two and twice as many adventures overall -- subscribe to the show...

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 Fal...

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.   For twice the adventures plus secret messages from the Filthy Armenian mission to save...

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.  ...

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 . For the full 2.5 hour episode, plus twice as many adventures overall, subscribe to the show at patreon.com/filthyarmenian Follow us on X/insta @filthyarmenian 

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.   For twice as many intellectual adventures, and other perks, subscribe to the show at patreon.com/filthyarmenian   Follow us on X/insta @filthyarmenian

Jukebox episode reviewing The Drama by Kristoffer Borgli and the Iran War by Donald J. Trump. This episode is for patrons only. To listen, subscribe to the show at patreon.com/fitlhyarmenian  

Personally selected passages from Witness, Whittaker Chambers's deeply emotional memoir about testifying to -- and against -- the ideology that dare not speak its name.   For twice the adventures, including last week's blockbuster about the Red Scare, subscribe to the show at patreon.com/filthyarmenian   Follow on X/insta @filthyarmenian

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   First hour free, full ep for paid subscr...

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.   For the full 2 hour...

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.   Part 2/2 - for the full 2 hr episode (and double the adventures + other perks) subscribe to the show at patreo...

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 e...

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   For twice as many adventures and private messages, subscribe to the show at patreon.com/filthyarmenian   Find us on X/insta @filthyarmenian

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 .   For the full 2 hour adventure on the classic street that inspired David Lynch's classic film, subscribe to the show at patreon.com/filthyarmenian   Fo...

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   For the upcoming part 2 plus twice as many adventures overall, subscribe to the show at patreon.com/filthyarmenian   And please do spread the word...

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. For full episode, subscribe to the show at patreon.com/filthyarmenian   Follow us on X/insta @filthyarmenian

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.   For twice adventures and exclusive spiritual gossip, subscribe to the show at patreon.com/filthyarme...

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. For the full 3 hour episode -- and twice as many adventures overall -- subscribe to the show at patreon.com/filthyarmenian Guest starring Yeerk of Bistro Californium . If you l...

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.   For twice the adventures plus regular "smoke break" mini eps on spiritual gossip of the day, subscribe to the show at patreon.com/filthyarmenian   Follow on X/insta @filthyarmenian   If you l...

Is it still possible to be raped by art? On a rainy traumatic afternoon in Paris, Matthew Wilder and I ponder the question.   For the full 2 hour episode, and more than double the adventures, subscribe to the show at patreon.com/filthyarmenian   Follow on X/insta @filthyarmenian   If you like what you hear, pls spread the word

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.   For twice as many adventures and exclusive "smoke break" mini-eps on spiritual gossip of the day, subscribe to the show at patreon.com/filthyarmenian   Follow on X/insta @filthyarmenian   If you like what you hear, spread the...

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   For the full 2+ hour dance -- and twice the feature eps plus regular "smoke break" mini eps on spiritual gossip of the day -- subscribe to the show at patreon.com...

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   For access to twice as many adventures, plus regular "smoke break" mini episodes on topics of the day, subscribe to the show at patreon.com/filthyarmenian   Follow...

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).   For the full 4 hour bull ses...