Filthy Armenian Adventures

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 the middle of the night, while everyone in town's...

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/filthyar...

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. We recognize a tune. To signal traffic in the nar...

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 really there??   To listen to the full organi...

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 discussed yet, its predecessor Nathan for You, our...

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 stranger...

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 the full twisted adventure, with 30+ exclu...

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 for 30+ exclusive episodes.   Follow us on...

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.   Follow us on Twitter and Instagram @filthya...

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   Free first hour of a 3 hour bull session. For the full episode (and 30 other secret chapters), become a subscr...

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. Part 2 of a nonfiction mystery drama. To access Part 1 (and 30 other premium episodes), subscribe at patreon.com/filthyarmenian Location: Hamburg, Germany If you like what you hear, please rate, review, and spread the word!

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... A nonfiction mystery drama in two acts. This is the opening monologue. To listen to the full adventure, subscribe at patreon.com/filthyarmenian 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.    To follow the full twisted adventure through our cultural apocalypse, subscribe at patreon.com/filthyarmenian for over two dozen extra-intimate subscriber-only episodes.   Follow us...

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 M...

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...   For the magical finale of this FAA...

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, Th...

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...