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 asleep, and find out what these people are missing (or are they right and must I disavow???) -- and ...
Feb 14, 2023•2 hr
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/filthyarmenian for only $5 month to take part in the full, twisted adventure through our cultural apocalypse. Fol...
Feb 04, 2023•14 min
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 narrative chaos, we trust the time-honored cues of the theater. We discuss a movie about a real place t...
Jan 25, 2023•3 hr 34 min
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 organic street drama, and follow the complete twisted adventure with 30 other subscriber-only episodes, subscribe at ...
Jan 16, 2023•26 min
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 own related Jewish experiments with fourth walls, and Zach's prophetic reality tv debut as a pretee...
Jan 09, 2023•1 hr 15 min
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 strangers. When he finds it, a spooky concert rings through downtown. The full 2 hour episode is for subscri...
Jan 02, 2023•7 min
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+ exclusive episodes and multiple new ones each month. Follow us on twitter/instagram @filthyarmenian Happy New Ye...
Dec 31, 2022•1 hr 32 min
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 Twitter/Insta @filthyarmenian If you like what you hear, please make it known...
Dec 22, 2022•2 hr 40 min
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 @filthyarmenian
Dec 20, 2022•12 min
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 subscriber at patreon.com/filthyarmenian Follow us on twitter and instagram @filthyarmenian If you like what...
Dec 14, 2022•57 min
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!
Dec 10, 2022•2 hr 13 min
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
Dec 01, 2022•8 min
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 on Twitter/Insta @filthyarmenian. If you like what you hear, please rate, review, and spread the word....
Nov 08, 2022•2 hr 33 min
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 Mason of The Perfume Nationalist and Salomé of Twitter join me for an Art Right Halloween Pride Parad...
Oct 31, 2022•58 min
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 one year anniversary adventure, and over two dozen other premium episodes, subscribe on patreon.com/fil...
Oct 24, 2022•2 hr 18 min
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, The Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel, 25 Degrees diner, Hollywood and Highland parking lot Starring John Parks ...
Oct 18, 2022•9 min
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 York, NY To experience the full twisted adventure, subscribe on patreon.com/filthyarmenian for 25 intimat...
Oct 13, 2022•1 hr 53 min
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 Andrew Dominik's Blonde), and Glenn Greenwald at the Casino. Location: On the air Follow us on twitter and...
Oct 06, 2022•2 hr 33 min
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 author Adam Lehrer , artist Bradford Kessler , art critic Harry Tafoya et al. Location: Clandestino, TIM...
Sep 30, 2022•17 min
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 Nicholas @nrodolfopat If you like what you hear, please rate review and spread the word....
Sep 26, 2022•9 min
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 us on twitter at twitter.com/filthyarmenian. Instagram @filthyarmenian. If you like what you hear, pl...
Sep 16, 2022•2 hr 44 min
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 episodes including "Anarchy at Freedomfest," where I talk to the FreedomFest co-founder JoAnne Skouse...
Sep 10, 2022•2 hr 9 min
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 Democracy and No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Surveillance State . Follow h...
Aug 25, 2022•35 min
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, subscribe at patreon.com/filthyarmenian for the encore episode from this encounter and much more. Recommended...
Aug 06, 2022•3 hr 42 min
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" essay by H.L. Mencken Follow on twitter/insta @filthyarmenian If you like what you hear, please rate, r...
Jul 12, 2022•58 min
Local bard Berto ( Ghost Jail ), justice of the peace Illych ( Chicago Transplant Authority ), and Texas noseman Jack Mason ( The Perfume Nationalist ) drink every drop of sex, politics, and religion in that deep Chicago night in search of a cure. This is Part 1: "I Wish My Mom Was Michael Jackson." For the full 3.5 hour nocturnal extravaganza, subscribe at patreon.com/filthyarmenian Location: Cheesie's, Wang's, Sidetrack, The Closet, and other unidentified corners of Boystown in Chicago, Illino...
Jul 05, 2022•1 hr
Enter the dark room, but go with a friend...The long-hidden FAA pilot. This is only the preface, the full episode is for Patreon subscribers and adults only. Become one at patreon.com/filthyarmenian Locations: KAISERBRÜNDL Herrensauna Vienna, Austria and a bar in Sarajevo, Bosnia Follow us on twitter/instagram @filthyarmenian
Jun 24, 2022•16 min
Four visits with America's most famous rabbi and "one of the 50 most influential Jews in the world" to see what’s up, ask what’s it like, and examine the facts of The Case. David Wolpe is the author of Why Faith Matters , Making Loss Matter , and most recently, David: The Divided Heart . Location: Sinai Temple, Wilshire Boulevard. Experience the complete adventure by subscribing at patreon.com/filthyarmenian for all episodes. On twitter and instagram, follow us @filthyarmenian and David Wolpe @r...
Jun 12, 2022•2 hr 20 min
Jack returns from The Perfume Nationalist to ponder what is wrong with Joan Didion, what is depressing beyond belief about that Netflix documentary that memed her, and what rings true and timeless and based and redpilled about her classic book Slouching Towards Bethlehem (1968), written when she was a Goldwater girl with a little secret. This is the first hour only. To listen to the whole thing, plus all the other bull sessions and premium episodes that complete the adventure, subscribe at patre...
May 20, 2022•1 hr
Communist pizza, libertarian hotdogs, Hitler-Stalin lovemaking and other shocking scenes pass us by as Thaddeus Russell (author of A Renegade History of the United States ) gives me a tour of his politically-charged boyhood in Berkeley...until we save him "thousands on therapy" and stumble upon the one question no revolutionary mama wants to face. Part Four of the San Francisco Quartet. If you like what you hear, subscribe on patreon.com/filthyarmenian to experience the full twisted adventure wi...
May 16, 2022•2 hr 19 min
