Based in Los Angeles, California, 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 no topic is taboo. Where no personality is too extreme. Where the past is never past, the present’s always present, and the Santa Ana Winds are always blowing. Where the most enchanting public or private figures in our landscape are dared to abandon their masks and join a Filth ...
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My opening monologue to a magical evening in Austin, Texas honoring Nic Pizzolatto and True Detective on its decade anniversary. For the full video conversation and Q&A with Nic, Jack Mason, and the ladies of Temple of Friendship, and a performance by Nic's wife Suzanne Santo, visit Temple of Friendship's patreon. The live event occurred on June 29…
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81. The Speechwriter w/ Ken Khachigian
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Ronald Reagan's chief speechwriter and the one advisor who counseled Nixon NOT to resign joins me for a conversation on the secret connection between the two men, the nature of political messaging, The Swamp, and the history-making scenes and secrets revealed in his new memoir Behind Closed Doors: In the Room with Nixon and Reagan. For twice as man…
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80. The Hollywood Bowl (feat. Bob Dylan & Willie Nelson)
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A concert adventure with Bob and Willie under the concentric arches of the historic amphitheater "where summer is forever." For the full 2+ hour episode -- plus double the adventures and regular "smoke break" mini eps on topics of the day -- subscribe to the show at patreon.com/filthyarmenian Follow us on x/insta @filthyarmenian…
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An undecided voter describes his creepy, weird transformation upon the shooting of Donald J. Trump. Guest starring Nic Dollinger of The Beautiful Toilet and Maryland Free Press For double the adventures (including the most intimate ones) plus regular Smoke Break mini eps, please subscribe to the show at patreon.com/filthyarmenian Follow us on X/ins…
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Bonjour based department: a French politician hops on the air to explain everything we need to know about the political situation in France, the new male sex symbol on the French right, Houellebecq going mask off since being snubbed by the Nobel, and more. For twice as many adventures plus regular Smoke Break mini-eps on topics and media of the day…
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Making our way through an existential crisis with a little help from the genius who tried to prove the existence of God. Some say he failed. You decide. Recommended reading: Blaise Pascal's Penseés With Connor For the full 3 hour episode, and over twice as many adventures plus patron-exclusive Smoke Break mini eps, please subscribe to the show on p…
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76. Can a Movie Be Evil? w/ Adam Lehrer
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ALPHA DOG (Nick Cassavetes, 2006) and BULLY (Larry Clark, 2001) are two crime dramas based on real teen murders -- but only one of them inspired an even worse crime of its own. Botched chad Adam Lehrer joins me to investigate this case of entertainment vs art. For the full episode, subscribe to the show at patreon.com/filthyarmenian Adam is the aut…
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75. Our Twisted World: Rodger & Me in Isla Vista 2
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All children, except one, grow up. On the 10th anniversary of the crime that vanquished Neverland, a Chill Detective and I analyze the unanswered questions of My Twisted World: The Story of Elliot Rodger, and attempt to restore at least the memory of the paradise he destroyed... For the full 3 hour episode -- plus twice as many adventures overall, …
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On the ten year anniversary of his "Day of Retribution," I trace Elliot Rodger's footsteps at the beautiful college town of Isla Vista Santa Barbara, where I spent my first two years of college in a different kind of incel splendor. Part 1 of 2. For the sequel, twice as many adventures overall, plus a dozen monthly "smoke break" mini eps, join the …
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Smoke Break: Lost O.J. / Curb Your Enthusiasm / The Fake Bigot
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Three mini episodes from a new regular feature available to Patreon subscribers since December. My history with O.J. Simpson, my review of Curb Your Enthusiasm and its final season, and the online right's answer to the fake humanitarian. For 10+ of these a month, plus over twice as many feature episodes, subscribe to the show at patreon.com/filthya…
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Jazz, beignets, red robin filets, a liberal vampire and a hunt for the four-word secret of New Orleans... For the full 2.5 hour adventure -- plus twice as many episodes and a dozen "smoke break" mini eps per month -- subscribe to the show at patreon.com/filthyarmenian Follow us on X/insta @filthyarmenian…
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Through the driving range, along the greenway, and beside the L.A. River -- a long hello to the life and times of Steve Sailer, the forbidden figure and famous shamus of the San Fernando Valley. Including how he became who he is, the art of noticing, and why America needs more sex drugs and rock n' roll. Buy Sailer's excellent new book Noticing, ou…
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Smoke Break: The Zone of Interest / The Curse / True Detective: Women Talking
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Three mini episodes from a new regular feature available to Patreon subscribers since December. These are "lived-in" reviews of the Oscar winning travesty Zone of Interest, Nathan Fielder's show The Curse, and the latest season of True Detective. For 10+ of these a month, plus over twice as many feature episodes, subscribe to he show at patreon.com…
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71. Dom Top Society with Cara Cunningham
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How did Cara Cunningham -- who, as "Chris Crocker," became an internet folk hero for urging the world to leave Britney alone -- find her way through MySpace stardom, gay porn, and Canceled Bitch Island to the hallowed Paglian enclave of free women, free men? We discuss. For the full 2.5 hour episode -- plus over twice the adventures and regular "sm…
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70. Capote vs. Capote (w/ Jack Mason, Adam Lehrer, Zach Langley)
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"All literature is gossip." A dish-fest on the rise and fall of Truman Capote, the acid fairy of American letters, and the elephant in the closet. With Jack Mason of The Perfume Nationalist, Adam Lehrer of Safety Propaganda, and Zach Langley of I'm So Popular For full 3 hour episode -- and twice as many adventures, plus regular mini "smoke break" e…
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69. Loving Las Vegas (w/ Curtis Yarvin, Delicious Tacos, and more)
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At the penthouse ballroom of the Horseshoe Hotel and Casino, I invite Curtis Yarvin, Delicious Tacos, Astral Flight, Mommy Milkers, Catherine, Vera, Isaac Simpson, Matt Pegan, Garin and everyone else to love Las Vegas, if only for a night. For the full 1.5 hour episode, twice as many feature adventures, and regular "smoke break" mini eps, subscribe…
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How do you grow up in a country where everyone wants you dead -- and escape with the help of Pasolini and Brando? Monica (Temple of Friendship) tells her story. Reprised with a new intro, in light of recent triumphs and tragedies. For twice as many adventures (including the most intimate and scandalous ones) and 10+ "smoke break" mini episodes a mo…
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67. Fashion Balls (w/ Elena Velez)
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A dream remembered. Designer Elena Velez discusses the math and aftermath of "Tomorrow Is Another Day," her bombshell Gone With the Wind-themed salon that toppled the media mannequins at NYC fashion week, the cold civil war, and the battle for artistic freedom. To support the show and get access to twice as many adventures, plus several intimate "s…
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Before they canceled him, Alfred Hitchcock made a movie about "the birds." Before they canceled her, Camille Paglia wrote an entire book about THE BIRDS. Here's why both are so prophetic of our henpecked times. A gull session with Jack Mason of The Perfume Nationalist on two monumental figures in the Filthy Armenian landscape. For the full 2.45 hou…
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65. "Socialism" and Orwell in Barcelona
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There is daytime socialism. And there is nighttime socialism. George Orwell narrates a long summer night in Barcelona where a friend and I pursue a very different, but not entirely different, dream than the one that falls to pieces in HOMAGE TO CATALONIA. For the full 2.5 hour episode -- and over twice as many adventures as well as exclusive daily …
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64. The Truth About Alec Baldwin
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Addressing the "curse" of Alec Baldwin Derangement Syndrome. For twice as many adventures plus regular bite-size "smoke breaks" and heads up on next live event, subscribe to the.show at patreon.com/filthyarmenian Follow us on X/insga @filthyarmenian Take moment to review and rate the show wherever you listen, it helps.…
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63. An Encounter with the Enemy at Taix
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The Mormon has gone clean, but his newfound inner peace meets a challenge in our return to L.A.'s oldest purveyor of soup... To follow the full twisted adventure, subscribe to the show at patreon.com/filthyarmenian for over twice as many episodes. Please rate and review the show wherever you listen, and follow us on X/insta @filthyarmenian…
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62. White Christmas - Live (w/ Richard Hanania, Jack Mason, Ben Braddock)
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On January 6, in front of packed house at the Adventurer's Club Los Angeles (est. 1921), we perform a surrogate rebirth of the spirit of Christmas. With Richard Hanania, Jack Mason (The Perfume Nationalist), Ben Braddock, DJ Gum Arabic, and Santa Claus. For the full 2.5 hour episode -- and twice as many adventures overall, plus regular bite size "s…
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61. The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down w/ Glen Rockney
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Wanted. America. Dead or Alive. Glen Rockney of Rare Candy and The Back Wall joins me for a dance to the haunting tunes and portents of Martin Scorcese's THE LAST WALTZ (1978), a documentary classic about the historic final concert where The Band and friends staged several of the greatest rock performances of all time. For the full 2.5 hour episode…
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60. F. Scott Fitzgerald Under Sunset Blvd (w/ Matthew Specktor)
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F. Scott Fitzgerald died a few steps below Sunset as a broken man and cautionary symbol of what Hollywood can do to your talent and soul. But how true is that fable? Matthew Specktor -- author of Always Crashing in the Same Car: On Art, Crisis & Los Angeles, California and founding editor of the L.A. Review of Books -- joins me on a journey from Fi…
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59. Bob Dylan on Hollywood Blvd. Volume 2
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Returning to the vaudeville theater on the boulevard of crime for the second half of Bob Dylan’s Rough n Rowdy Ways concert and album, the second act of his life, and the fateful question posed by his final American prophesy… For twice as many adventures, including an upcoming episode on The Last Waltz and Volume One of this episode, please support…
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58. Daylight Savings at the Suicide Bridge
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Jumping off the Colorado Street Bridge -- which curves majestically over the Arroyo Secco, one of the driest rivers known to man -- is not as easy as it once was. But don't panic. It's not dark yet. My guest Isaac Simpson has a right wing ad agency that can rebrand your troubles using the ancient power of negative thinking. An adventure of light, l…
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57. Good Gen X, Bad Gen X, and the 90s
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Reviewing Chuck Klosterman's recent book THE NINETIES, my guest and I reminisce about -- you guessed it -- The Nineties, until both of us arrive at a state of deep and all-consuming melancholy. The Nineties, that decade where history stopped, maybe to jerk off. How did we let that go? Where did we go so wrong? And most importantly: who can we point…
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56. The Politics of Knott’s Scary Farm
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On International Jihad Day, we find ourselves hunting for answers to horror in the Middle East in the historic hauntfest version of Knott's Berry Farm -- an iconic California theme park with a very important political secret of its own. For the full 2.5 hour adventure -- and twice as many eps overall, including the most intimate and scandalous ones…
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I crash the home of anti-woke sex symbol Richard Hanania, in many ways the MLK of our time, for a wide-ranging backyard conversation on his life, romances, his new book The Origins of Woke: Civil Rights Law, Corporate America, and the Triumph of Identity Politics...and our aggressive off-white dream to make America fun again. To support the show an…
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UNLOCKED: Joan Didion Had an Abortion w/ Jack Mason
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In honor of our first live show LOS ANGELES, unlocking a favorite bull session on Joan Didion's landmark SLOUCHING TOWARDS BETHLEHEM (and the odious Netflix documentary about her) with Jack Mason of The Perfume Nationalist. For many more like this and access to twice as many adventures, including the most intimate and scandalous ones and our first …
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54. LOS ANGELES a reverie under the stars
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It is a dark, dark age. But there are figures in the landscape, filthy particles in the air, and a city that has long served as a map of the apocalypse. Also dolmas. Welcome to the first live Filthy Armenian Adventure. This is Act 1: Fire, Brimstone, & the Santa Ana Winds featuring Alec Mouhibian and Joan Didion's ghost. For the full magical evenin…
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A propos of nothing, we explore the deceptions and wonders of female desire as revealed by Oscar Wilde and Richard Strauss's shocking opera SALOME. With Mommy Milkers (the Girl from Baku @mochak123) and Veronica (@our_daily_pain). If this free episode "touches" you please support the show by subscribing on patreon.com/filthyarmenian and get access …
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52. The Las’ Lesbian of Las Vegas PREVIEW
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Splendid dinner with Vera at Scarpetta in Cosmo where we discuss our idiotic generations, the sexual devolution, growing up on social media, paleolesbianism, neopuritanism, transmania, and more while she watches me eat a bowl of pasta. For the full episode, and access to over 50 other patron-only adventures, support the show by subscribing at patre…
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Is Las Vegas the last city where lesbians are born? A Las' Lesbian takes me on a tour of the still moderately woke-free Erotic Heritage Museum, an eccentric altar of smut co-founded by a preacher and pornographer in the city of sin. If you enjoy this free episode and want to see the show continue, subscribe on patreon.com/filthyarmenian for access …
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Be careful. There are people out there who can break into you with a wave of the hand. Such as this gay "drunk" cyborg I met in the land of trolls and Ibsen... Enjoy this free episode and become a patron at patreon.com/filthyarmenian to access over twice as many, including last week's intimate secret ep The Book Buyer's Bedroom and a forthcoming di…
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I speak to the owner of Hollywood's last used bookstore, Counterpoint Records & Books (est. 1979) in Franklin Village, on the magic business of second hand books, surviving the apocalypse, famous customers, and keeping the lights on in Los Angeles. Enjoy this free episode and access double the adventures (including last week's "Oscar Wilde at Heart…
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46. Oscar Wilde at Heart (w/ Jack Mason & Zach Langley) PREVIEW
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In the dying days of a great century, a certain love dared speak its name. But there was evil in the tone. We examine The Picture of Dorian Gray, De Profundis, and the starry starry tell-tale life of Oscar Wilde, up to his tragic demise at the hands of an eternal scheming bottom. Guest starring Jack Mason (The Perfume Nationalist) and Zach Langley …
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45. Cinema Insanity with David Thomson (PREVIEW)
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From noir and the western to the utopian world of screwball, where love is anything but love, and Hollywood reached its fairytale peak. Part 2 of my conversation with the film historian/critic/novelist David Thomson is all about being raised by movies, the importance (and occasional hazards) of insanity, and secrets of the moon. The full, intimate …
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44. Cinema Immortality with David Thomson
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One year after our rain dance to conquer the death of cinema, film critic/novelist/historian David Thomson welcomes me back for a dreamy convo about the spiritual treasures and booby traps of noir, the western, and the screwball comedy -- three worlds of movieland he has realized and reinvented in his enchanting fiction trilogy SUSPECTS, SILVER LIG…
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Welcome to the cemetery of restless dreams. Where poets and businessmen, Jews and Armenains still vie for your attention. Where many stars are buried, waiting for you to rediscover (or join) them. Matthew Pegan (The New Write) and I interrogate the illusions Hollywood Forever (est. 1899). This is a preview of the monologue only. For the full 2+ hou…
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42. Bob Dylan on Hollywood Blvd.
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From the fancy old stage of the last vaudeville theater on a boulevard of crime, Bob Dylan reveals who he is, and how to make America great again. For the upcoming Volume 2 and dozens of other subscriber-only episodes, join the rug merchants, cigar singers, and oligarchs of the night who support the show at patreon.com/filthyarmenian for as little …
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My Other Show, and Jerry Sandusky
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As I take a few extra days to prepare my bombshell Bob Dylan adventure, allow me to introduce my other podcast THE BACK WALL, a raunchy and reactionary psychedelic sports show I co-host with Glen Rockney of Rare Candy fame. This is our most popular episode so far, and you need no interest or knowledge of sports at all to care about it. It features …
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41. The (Ike &) Tina Turner Manifesto w/ Adam Lehrer
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The power of love, the power of hate, the power of private dancing. Adam Lehrer joins for a bull session memorial of FAA goddess Tina Turner, and to recount his chilling experience with a ghost in New England. We also discuss exciting developments in the avant-garde publishing scene, and how to transcend the internet-addled creative doldrums of our…
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Hippie sermons in the desert. Zoomers cancel Blink182. The hipster devolves from rock n roll to useless lib nag. Not Star Wars, but Spiderman explains the end of things. Pirates aren't what they used to be, but one old man still Claptons for freedom. See something, say something. Those who do/do not remember the past are doomed to repeat it. My nec…
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39. Coachella, Where Art Thou?? (WEEKEND 2, 2023)
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One week and one year later, the holograms have taken over. I return to Coachella to fill in for Frank Ocean, remember Ruth Brown, reminisce to Calvin Harris, and seek the one weapon in this world that can thwart the K-POP invasion. Weekend 2, 2023. Enjoy this free episode. For part 1 and the upcoming part 3 of the Coachella trilogy, plus dozens mo…
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38. Coachella, Where Art Thou? (Weekend 1, 2022) PREVIEW
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Water communism, bathroom feminism, FOMO and other dyslexic prophesies from a popular desert festival that was lost and found in deuces wild. Plus a news update on the state of bisexual affairs. For the full episode, and many more exclusive delights, subscribe to Filthy Armenian Adventures at patreon.com/filthyarmenian for as little as $5 a month. …
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37. The Rock & Roll Hypothesis (feat. Greil Marcus)
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Amid our long cultural intermission, the greatest ever critic and historian of ROCK & ROLL welcomes me into his home for an afternoon reverie on some of our favorite music artists and their covers of the American Dream. Greil Marcus was the very first records editor of Rolling Stone and the author of critical masterpieces Mystery Train and Lipstick…
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36. Austin Grooming Sequence (feat. Sister, Jack Mason, Jocko) PREVIEW
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To some, it is paradise. To me, it is the deepest darkest pit of childhood fear and boyhood loathing, Longhouse HQ, symbol sight & sound of chthonian meandering maternal schemes. Can the circle be unbroken? Two of my favorite boys in the world take me to THE DOMAIN of the trauma beast (after a pit stop at diner heaven) on this Linklatery Texas-fore…
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SPECIAL EDITION 13: The Truth About Scott Adams (preview)
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I have a few words to say about Scott Adams, Dilbert creator, getting canceled at last for a kamikaze strike on the Church of Racism. To hear them all, subscribe for the full episode at patreon.com/filthyarmenian. There are now 40 episodes available exclusively to my "rug merchant" patrons, and at least two new ones each month. See us on twitter an…
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