Filthy Armenian Adventures
by Filthy Armenian
FILTHY ARMENIAN ADVENTURES is an immersive, existential travel-mystery show recorded in the flesh at glittering locations with enchantingly filthy characters all over Los Angeles and the world. The destinations are not merely physical. They include cultural war zones and forbidden territories of art, nightlife, and the heart, which Filthy Armenian dares his guests to help him trespass...in search of truth and gold. To follow the full twisted adventure, subscribe for intimate patron-only episodes, side quests, and secret chapters.
Episodes
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155. Love is a Cult
What the infinite discourse has failed to see in Lance Oppenheim and Nathan Fielder's must-see documentary YOU CAN SEE EVERYTHING. (Plus a few thoughts on DIGGER). With Adam Lehrer (Tablet Magazine) and Cody LaDuke (American Cinema podcast) For the full episode, plus access to double the...
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154. Football
On the art, meaning, and potential doom of a great American organized religion. With audibles at the line of scrimmage from Chuck Klosterman's 2026 book Football and Camille Paglia's 1997 essay "Gridiron Feminism." The final chapter of The Back Wall with Glen Rockney. To support this show and...
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153. Baby It's Cold Inside w/ Inez Stepman
Debating the finer points of gangbangs and unpacking the moral and political ramifications of the "Cornell 7" primetime MeToo hoax. With Inez Stepman. To support the show and get access to twice the episodes, subscribe to the show at patreon.com/filthyarmenian Follow on X/insta @filthyarmenian
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152. Suddenly, This Summer w/ Matthew Wilder
Closing the book on the hottest summer of all time with three sweaty cinema classics from the sunburnt mind of summer's patron saint, Tennessee Williams: the age-gap comedy BABY DOLL (1956), the homo shock therapy SUDDENLY LAST SUMMER (1958), and FAA house favorite THE NIGHT OF THE IGUANA (1961)...
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151. Pali High: The Return
Palisades High returns to campus for its first full school year since the fires. But how much of "it" survived? I pay a visit to its centermost authority, English teacher Mr. Klima, for a re-enactment of conflicts about history, religion, free speech, and prom. A 250/25 anniversary special. For...
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150. The Devil's Gate w/ Conrad Flynn
For rocket scientist Jack Parsons, the Devil's Gate Dam proved to be a portal to the stars -- and to something else. Conrad Flynn joins me on a hot-as-Hell day for a hike around the Pasadena portal where one too many occult experiments succeeded. For the full 2 hour adventure, subscribe to the…
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149. Jim Goad, Self-harm, & Sunset Boulevard
Last month, counterculture icon Jim Goad (ANSWER Me!, Redneck Manifesto), godfather of the online right, died by his own hand. Adam Lehrer joins me to commemorate his legacy and review the intellectual circumstances that led to his demise, while appreciating "24 Hours on Sunset," his historic…
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148. The P.G. Wodehouse Resort & Casino w/ Yeerk
An introduction to Jeeves, Wooster, the timeless literary paradise of by P.G. Wodehouse, his (almost) perfect writer's life, and some theories as to why the sublime comic pleasure of his work endures in the internet age. With Yeerk of Bistro Californium For the full 2 hour episode, and more than...
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147. Hulkamerica
A man makes gladiator theater out of patriotism. Becomes rich, famous, adored. And then he risks it all for the real thing... Reflections on the new documentary Hulk Hogan: Real American with Michael Garrity For twice as many adventures, subscribe to the show at patreon.com/filthyarmenian Follow…
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146. Weighing In w/ Jack Mason & Cara Cunningham
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...
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145. Summertime Tea w/ Jack Mason and Cara Cunningham
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...
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144. Columbo at Griffith Park
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...
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143. SAVE L.A. - Election Special
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...
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142. Langer's Delicatessen Speaks w/ Norm Langer
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…
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141. Gary Indiana's Mad About the Boy
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...
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140. Menschinformation w/ Jacob Siegel
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...
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139. Open the Strait
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
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138. Witness
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...
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137. The Red Scare w/ Jack Mason & Ben Braddock
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....
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136. The Miracle of Preston Sturges
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…
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135. The Merchant of Memory
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…
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134. Evil Sports Cards
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…
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133. Palisades Lost III: Paul Revere's Ride
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...
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132. Mulholland Dr. on Mulholland Drive w/ Scout Dixon West
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...
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131. Winkie's Diner w/ Scout Dixon West
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...
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130. Marty Inferior, Scott Supreme
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...
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129. The Hunt and After the Hunt
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....
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128. A Twilight Zone Christmas w/ Yeerk
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 --...
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127. Palisades Lost II
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…
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126. Le Death of Art w/ Matthew Wilder
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...
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125. Palisades Lost
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...
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124. Dancers from the Dance w/ Zach Langley
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...
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123. The Greystone Mansion Murders w/ Matt Pegas
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...
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122. Maughamy Issues w/ Getting Lit
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...
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Smoke Break: One Battle After Another
Some thoughts on the worst movie ever made, by Paul Thomas Anderson. This is a regular feature exclusive to subscribers of the show at patreon.com/filthyarmenian -- enjoy this free sample, and subscribe for regular heart-to-heart messages on topics of the day, in addition to double the…
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121. Laughter in the Closet w/ Robert Plunket
Eureka! Literary treasure has been found. It is called My Search for Warren Harding, and it's about one man's zany scheming quest for literary treasure (the love letters of "the shallowest president in history") in early 1980s Hollywood. It is the funniest thing I have read in a long time, and...
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120. Grouching Towards Bethlehem w/ Amanda Milius
The rage, the pride, more lessons, and how not to be depressed by the predictable aftermath of the murder of Charlie Kirk. For the full 2 hour episode, subscribe to the show at patreon.com/filthyarmenian Guest starring Amanda Milius, director of The Plot Against The President. Related: FAA 9....
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119. Judgment Day w/ Jack Mason
Naming names, unamerican activities, and the many subtle lies being deployed to distract you from the meaning of the murder of Charlie Kirk. With Jack Mason of The Perfume Nationalist To support this show and get access to twice as many full episodes, plus regular "smoke break" mini eps on topics...
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A Brief Word
for the weekend
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118. Take Me Out to the Ball Game w/ Glen Rockney
A tribute to the David Lynch of broadcasting -- the voice of baseball, the voice of summer, the voice of the long Los Angeles afternoon -- the narrator of 67 years of American boyhood, the great Vin Scully. For twice the full adventures plus regular "smoke breaks" on topics of the day, subscribe…
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117. Raymond Chandler Speaks
Juicy nuggets from a deep dive into the letters of Raymond Chandler -- on Hammett, Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Hitchcock, Hollywood Jews, Catholics, Communists, the model for Ellsworth Toohey, the writer's life and the craft of writing, and more -- plus the only surviving evidence of his literal…
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116. Raymond Chandler in Los Feliz w/ Steve Sailer
Snooping around the House of Pies and the home of Raymond Chandler in Los Feliz, in search of the secrets behind Philip Marlowe. Guest starring Steve Sailer. For the full 2.5 hour episode, plus double adventures and regular exclusive "smoke break" mini eps, subscribe to the show at...
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115. 3 Women at Les Ogres w/ Matthew Wilder
Masculinity on screen, immortality hobbies, and a vigorous debate between homo and hetero ideology are inspired as Matthew Wilder and I wrap our heads around Robert Altman's dreamy 1977 masterpiece 3 WOMEN at Cafe Les Ogres in Paris, France. For the full 2 hour episode + double the feature...
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114. HIVE 2 - w/ Jack Mason, Yeerk, Garin Hovannisian (live)
Hop aboard the Brolita Express! Find a seat between Orwell and Borges. We're stopping in Austin and London on our way to Hive, a mysterious Greek island run entirely by women, ruled by a masked queen, where only the manliest men are sometimes invited. Jack Mason (The Perfume Nationalist) and…
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113. HIVE live w/ Garin Hovannisian
A show about a mystery about the loss of love and magic from our lives -- and how to get it back. Guest starring Garin Hovannisan, author of the new novel HIVE. Part 1: Hollywood Edition. Recorded live on Hollywood Boulevard, a few steps from Grauman's Chinese, on June 14. For double the…
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112. You're The Only Ten I See w/ Zach Langley & Josh
The life love and man magic of Tennessee Williams, poet laureate of American summer. The study begins with his first three: the timeless Glass Menagerie, the deathless Streetcar Named Desire, and the underrated Summer & Smoke, a parable of frigidity most relevant to our times. With Zach Langley…
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111. Short Cuts at Johnie's Broiler w/ Matthew Wilder
As helicopters descend on the city it's time to cruise down to Johnie's Broiler the magical diner in Downey where Tom Waits abandons his tuna melt in SHORT CUTS (1993). What better place to enter Robert Altman's masterpiece mosaic of "untapped Los Angeles" and the Raymond Carver stories within…
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110. Nothing But The Blues w/ Rare Candy
Let's try to save the blues from SINNERS. After reviewing Ry Coogler's latest up against the much more profound BLACK SNAKE MOAN (2006) and more liberated CROSSROADS (1986), I take Glen Rockney and Crypto Psi of Rare Candy on a personal-historical tour of the music that made me the man (and…
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109. The Truth About Scott Adams
Some thoughts on the bad news about Scott Adams, and an appreciation. For the full Filthy Armenian Adventures experience, subscribe to the show at patreon.com/filthyarmenian
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108. Mimesis w/ Yeerk
A celebration of Erich Auerbach's masterpiece Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature, in light of the last decade's institutional conspiracy to shrink reality in Western media, which hits a grotesque low in Netflix's Adolescence. Guest starring Yeerk of the Bistro…
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About this show
FILTHY ARMENIAN ADVENTURES is an immersive, existential travel-mystery show recorded in the flesh at glittering locations with enchantingly filthy characters all over Los Angeles and the world. The destinations are not merely physical. They include cultural war zones and forbidden territories of art, nightlife, and the heart, which Filthy Armenian dares his guests to help him trespass...in search of truth and gold. To follow the full twisted adventure, subscribe for intimate patron-only episodes, side quests, and secret chapters.
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