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Filthy Armenian Adventures
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FILTHY ARMENIAN ADVENTURES is a travel agency for the soul that takes you all over the map of our cultural apocalypse and deep into its most forbidden and forgotten territories, where the Santa Ana Winds are always blowing and all guests are dared to abandon their masks...
Subscribe to the show on Patreon get 2x the adventures, including the most intimate and scandalous ones, plus 10+ monthly Smoke Break mini-eps on topics of the day, and priority to live events.
Created and hosted by Alec Mouhibian.
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142. Langer's Delicatessen Speaks w/ Norm Langer
6d ago01:13:53Tap to summarizeSituated 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. For twice as many episodes, plus secret message from the our mission to save Los Angeles, subscribe to the show at patreon.com/filthyarmenian Follow us on x/insta @filthyarmenian Thank you for listening, and please spread the word.
Transcribe →141. Gary Indiana's Mad About the Boy
3w ago01:04:27Tap to summarizeHow 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
Transcribe →140. Menschinformation w/ Jacob Siegel
Apr 2701:59:38Tap to summarizeWhat 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
Transcribe →139. Open the Strait
Apr 1600:04:18Tap to summarizeJukebox 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
Transcribe →138. Witness
Mar 3001:44:29Tap to summarizePersonally 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
Transcribe →137. The Red Scare w/ Jack Mason & Ben Braddock
Mar 1801:14:39Tap to summarizeOn 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 subscribers. Subscribe at patreon.com/filthyarmenian for twice as many adventures and other perks. Follow on x/insta @filthyarmenian
Transcribe →136. The Miracle of Preston Sturges
Mar 1001:02:19Tap to summarizeDavid 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 episode on why Preston Sturges matters, subscribe to the show at patreon.com/filthyarmenian Follow on X/insta @filthyarmenian Rate, review, spread the word
Transcribe →135. The Merchant of Memory
Feb 2300:45:39Tap to summarizeWhat 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 patreon.com/filthyarmenian Follow on X/insta @filthyarmenian If you like what you hear, please review and spread the word
Transcribe →134. Evil Sports Cards
Feb 1701:24:15Tap to summarizeSince 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 entered the scene. Part 1/2 -- for access to part 2 and twice as many adventures overall, plus other perks, subscribe to the show at patreon.com/filthyarmenian Follow us on X/insta @filthyarmenian If you like what you hear, spread the word
Transcribe →133. Palisades Lost III: Paul Revere's Ride
Feb 501:44:00Tap to summarizeCaressed 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
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