Filthy Armenian Adventures
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 the Santa Ana Winds are always blowing and all guests are dared to abandon their masks... Subscribe to the show on Patreon get 2x the adventures, including the most intimate and scandalous ones, plus 10+ monthly Smoke Break mini-eps on topics of the day, and priority to live events. Created and hosted by Alec Mouhibian. Society & Culture arrow_drop_down Add optional categories Note: Apple Podcasts only recognizes the first category and subcategory. Podcast logo * (jpg or png) newimage.jpg arrow_drop_down Select image Apple Podcasts Requirement: Artwork must be a minimum size of 1400 x 1400 pixels and a maximum size of 3000 x 3000 pixels, in JPEG or PNG format. Highly recommended: Include a show title, brand, or source name as part of your podcast artwork. More Options keyboard_arrow_down Update Options Podbean.com Copyright © Podbean.com 2024. All Rights Reserved.
Episodes
Jun 11, 2026
Jun 11, 2026
22 min
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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May 28, 2026
May 28, 2026
1 hr 31 min
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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May 22, 2026
May 22, 2026
1 hr 13 min
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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May 7, 2026
May 7, 2026
1 hr 4 min
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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Apr 27, 2026
Apr 27, 2026
1 hr 59 min
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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Apr 16, 2026
Apr 16, 2026
4 min
Jukebox episode reviewing The Drama by Kristoffer Borgli and the Iran War by Donald J. Trump.
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Mar 30, 2026
Mar 30, 2026
1 hr 44 min
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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Mar 18, 2026
Mar 18, 2026
1 hr 14 min
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
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Mar 10, 2026
Mar 10, 2026
1 hr 2 min
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.
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Feb 23, 2026
Feb 23, 2026
45 min
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.
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