Filthy Armenian Adventures

147. Hulkamerica

A 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 American with Michael Garrity
 
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146. Weighing In w/ Jack Mason & Cara Cunningham

Putting 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 summertime independence tea with Jack Mason of The Perfume Nationalist and Cara Cunningham of venmo.
 
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145. Summertime Tea w/ Jack Mason and Cara Cunningham

Pornocalypse, 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 wide ranging summertime bull session with Jack Mason of The Perfume Nationalist and Cara Cunningham
 
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144. Columbo at Griffith Park

When 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 perfect introduction to COLUMBO.
 
Casey Flynn joins me in Travel Town Railroad and the Bronson Caves of Griffith Park for a timely investigation of Richard Levinson and William Link's ageless detective series starring Peter Falk.
 
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143. SAVE L.A. - Election Special

Lifelong 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 ringing endorsement ahead of the June 2 primary election for mayor of Los Angeles between Spencer Pratt, Karen Bass, and Nithya Raman.
 
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142. Langer's Delicatessen Speaks w/ Norm Langer

Situated 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.
 
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141. Gary Indiana's Mad About the Boy

How 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.
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140. Menschinformation w/ Jacob Siegel

What 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.
 
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139. Open the Strait

Jukebox episode reviewing The Drama by Kristoffer Borgli and the Iran War by Donald J. Trump.
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138. Witness

Personally selected passages from Witness, Whittaker Chambers's deeply emotional memoir about testifying to -- and against -- the ideology that dare not speak its name.
 
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