Filthy Armenian Adventures

20. Lights, Porn, and Libertarians in Las Vegas (feat. Nick Gillespie & John ”Buttman” Stagliano)

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?
 
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Location: The Mirage Hotel and Casino
 
Nick Gillespie is currently the host of The Reason Interview  podcast. Follow him online @nickgillespie and follow us @filthyarmenian
 
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19. Glenn Greenwald at the Casino (preface)

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 him on Twitter @ggreenwald and subscribe to his substack at greenwald.substack.com  
 
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18. Mortal Combat with David Horowitz

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...
 
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Recommended reading: Radical Son: A Generational Odyssey and Mortality & Faith: Reflections on a Journey Through Time by David Horowitz
 
Sights:
Shakespeare, Peter Collier, Ron Radosh, Raiders, Roger Goodell, Donald Trump, Ed Snyder, Mark Davis, Sontag, Rosenberg execution, Ramparts, Black Panthers, Robert Sheer, Isaiah Berlin, Erich Fromm, Tom Hayden, Huey Newton, Reason Magazine, Bill Kristol, Martin Luther, Pope Francis, Erdogan, Mel Gibson, Jesus, Protestants, Matt Drudge, Andrew Breitbart, Joan Didion, Ben Stein, 1939, supernatural diner experience, Bernie Sanders, Christopher Hitchens, Todd Gitlin, Mollie Hemingway, Henry Louis Gates, capitalism and rap, Twin Peaks, Mario Savio, Pascal, Paul Robeson, Charlie Chaplin’s moonwalk, Morgan, Winter’s Tale, AIDS, Larry Littlejohn, Van Morrison, Cocaine
 
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BULL SESSION 6: Conservative Long Covid w/ H.L. Mencken, Jack Mason, Barrett Avner

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
 
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17. Chicagohood

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, Illinois.
 
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16. Perversity in Vienna, Pride in Sarajevo (preface)

Enter the dark room, but go with a friend...The long-hidden FAA pilot.
 
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Locations: KAISERBRÜNDL Herrensauna Vienna, Austria and a bar in Sarajevo, Bosnia
 
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15. Beverly Hills Rabbi feat. David Wolpe

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. 
 
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SPECIAL Joan Didion Had An Abortion (w/ Jack Mason)

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.
 
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14. Ballad of a Berkeley Boy (feat. Thaddeus Russell)

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 with multiple patron-only episodes each month.
 
Thaddeus Russell is the host of the Unregistered Podcast. Follow him @ThaddeusRussell. Follow us on Twitter/Insta @filthyarmenian. 
 
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13. Married to the Movies with David Thomson

I visit David Thomson — author of the iconic Biographical Dictionary of Film, Have You Seen...?, Sleeping With Strangers: How the Movies Shaped Desire, Disaster Mon Amour, and dozens of other books that make him the greatest film critic/historian/writer who ever lived — at his home in San Francisco for a very personal conversation about the horrifying erotic aftermath of MeToo and how to escape, or transcend, the "death of cinema."
 
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SHOT LIST: Ukraine, Life in the Pandemic, Sight & Sound, Licorice Pizza, Los Angeles, The Academy, Long form television, Golden Age of Streaming, Twin Peaks The Return, Podcasts , Criterion, His Girl Friday, Will there be a new Biographical Dictionary of Film edition?, The Trilogy, Pauline Kael the bully (power drunk), Chelsea vs Liverpool, The democratic brotherhood of sports and movies, Bridgette Bardot’s nude scene, The reality of sexual desire, promiscuity, James Toback, The reality of women, The Big Sleep, Montgomery Clift’s sexuality, Kieran Hickey, Spencer Tracy’s sexuality, Beard marriages, Kevin Spacey 
 
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