About this podcast
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.
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Episodes
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- 155. Love is a Cult · 42 minWhat 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…
- 154. Football · 2 h 23 minOn 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…
- 153. Baby It's Cold Inside w/ Inez Stepman · 1 h 40 minDebating 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…
- 152. Suddenly, This Summer w/ Matthew Wilder · 41 minClosing 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…
- 151. Pali High: The Return · 1 h 59 minPalisades 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…
- 150. The Devil's Gate w/ Conrad Flynn · 44 minFor 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…
- 149. Jim Goad, Self-harm, & Sunset Boulevard · 2 h 12 minLast 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…
- 148. The P.G. Wodehouse Resort & Casino w/ Yeerk · 45 minAn 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…
- 147. Hulkamerica · 1 h 58 minA 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…
- 146. Weighing In w/ Jack Mason & Cara Cunningham · 50 minPutting 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…
- 145. Summertime Tea w/ Jack Mason and Cara Cunningham · 31 minPornocalypse, 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…
- 144. Columbo at Griffith Park · 23 minWhen 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…
- 143. SAVE L.A. - Election Special · 1 h 31 minLifelong 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…
- 142. Langer's Delicatessen Speaks w/ Norm Langer · 1 h 13 minSituated 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…
- 141. Gary Indiana's Mad About the Boy · 1 h 4 minHow 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…
- 140. Menschinformation w/ Jacob Siegel · 1 h 59 minWhat 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…
- 139. Open the Strait · 4 minJukebox 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…
- 138. Witness · 1 h 44 minPersonally selected passages from Witness, Whittaker Chambers's deeply emotional memoir about testifying to -- and against -- the ideology that dare not speak its name. For…
- 137. The Red Scare w/ Jack Mason & Ben Braddock · 1 h 14 minOn 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…
- 136. The Miracle of Preston Sturges · 1 h 2 minDavid 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…
