Filthy Armenian Adventures

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   For double the adventures (including the most intimate ones) plus regular Smoke Break mini eps, please subscribe to the show at patreon.com/filthyarmenian   Follow us on X/insta @filthyarmenian

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.     For twice as many adventures plus regular Smoke Break mini-eps on topics and media of the day, subscribe to the show on patreon.com/filthy...

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   For the full 3 hour episode, and over twice as many adventures plus patron-exclusive Smoke Break mini eps, please subscribe to the show on patreon.com/filthyarmenian   Follow us on X/i...

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.   For the full episode, subscribe to the show at patreon.com/filthyarmenian   Adam is the author of Safety Propaganda  and host of System o...

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...   For the full 3 hour episode -- plus twice as many adventures overall, and a dozen "smoke break" mini episodes per mon...

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.   For the sequel, twice as many adventures overall, plus a dozen monthly "smoke break" mini eps, join the supreme gentlemen and ladies who subscribe to th...

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.   For 10+ of these a month, plus over twice as many feature episodes, subscribe to the show at patreon.com/filthyarmenian   Thanks for listening!   @filthyarmenia...

Jazz, beignets, red robin filets, a liberal vampire and a hunt for the four-word secret of New Orleans...   For the full 2.5 hour adventure -- plus twice as many episodes and a dozen "smoke break" mini eps per month -- subscribe to the show at patreon.com/filthyarmenian   Follow us on X/insta @filthyarmenian

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.   For two secret chapt...

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/filthyarmenian   Thanks for listening!   @filth...

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 "smoke break" mini eps on topics of the day -- subs...

"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" eps -- subscribe to the show at patreon.com/fil...

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 to the show at patreon.com/filthyarmenian...

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 month, subscribe to the show at patreon.com/f...

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 "smoke break" mini eps each week (including a real...

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 hour episode -- plus twice as many adventures o...

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 "smoke break" mini eps -- subscribe to the show...

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.

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

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 "smoke break" eps -- subscribe to the show a...

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, subscribe to the show at patreon.com/filthyarm...

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 Westm...

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 the show by becoming a patron at patreon.com/fi...

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 fr...

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......