Filthy Armenian Adventures

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 patreon.com/filthyarmenian Follow on X/insta @filthyarmenian

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. 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

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 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

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 - 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

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 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

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 patreon.com/filthyarmenian Find us on X/insta @filthyarmenian

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 that inspired David Lynch's classic film, subscribe to the show at patreon.com/filthyarmenian Follow us on X/insta @filthyarmenian

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 adventures overall, subscribe to the show at patreon.com/filthyarmenian And please do spread the word if you like what you hear. We are on X/insta @filthyarmenian

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 @filthyarmenian

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. For twice adventures and exclusive spiritual gossip, subscribe to the show at patreon.com/filthyarmenian Follow us on X/insta @filthyarmenian If you value what you hear, spread the word

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 -- subscribe to the show at patreon.com/filthyarmenian Guest starring Yeerk of Bistro Californium. If you like what you hear, spread the word

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 day, subscribe to the show at patreon.com/filthyarmenian Follow on X/insta @filthyarmenian If you like what you hear, please spread the word etc.

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 hear, pls spread the word

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 patreon.com/filthyarmenian Follow on X/insta @filthyarmenian If you like what you hear, spread the word.

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 regular "smoke break" mini eps on spiritual gossip of the day -- subscribe to the show at patreon.com/filthyarmenian Follow us on X/insta @filthyarmenian If you like what you hear, spread the word

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 break" mini episodes on topics of the day, subscribe to the show at patreon.com/filthyarmenian Follow us on X/insta @filthyarmenian

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 about the meaning of art in his intellectual memoir The Summing Up (1936). For the full 4 hour bull session, subscribe to the show at patreon.com/filthyarmenian Guest starring Matthew Sini and Matt Fresca from the Getting Lit podcast Follow us on X/insta @filthyarmenian