Filthy Armenian Adventures

My Other Show, and Jerry Sandusky

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 one of the biggest media/legal scandals of the century, one that most people assume to be legit. The ep features John Ziegler, former LA talk radio host and the central character in David Foster Wallace's excellent feature story The Host, who torpedoed his career to prove that ex Penn State coach Jerry Sandusky is innocent.
 
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41. The (Ike &) Tina Turner Manifesto w/ Adam Lehrer

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 time to actually make something real, with examples from his most recent book Safety Propaganda: Conceptual Manifesto for Psychological Warfare. Plus Bob Dylan, Lou Reed, Fleetwood Mac, evil, and more. 
 
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Lehrer is also the author of Communions and the Safety Propaganda substack and hosts the podcast System of Systems
 
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40. Exodus (PREVIEW)

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 neck. 
 
My back.
 
With one or two magic moments, Coachella 2023 comes to a close.
 
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39. Coachella, Where Art Thou?? (WEEKEND 2, 2023)

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.
 
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38. Coachella, Where Art Thou? (Weekend 1, 2022) PREVIEW

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)

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 Traces, as well as several other books including The History of Rock n Roll in Ten Songs and most recently Folk Music: A Bob Dylan Biography in 7 Songs. His famous long-running column now appears on Substack. 
 
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Episode set list: Etta vs Beyoncé, Hitchens, Paglia, Madonna, Howlin Wolf and Jimmie Rodgers, John Hammond, Robert Johnson, Altemont, Rolling Stones, Lebron James, Rihanna, B.B. King, Bobby Blue Bland, Leon Russell, Harry Smith’s Anthology of Folk Music, Bob Dylan, Rolling Stone Magazine (early days), Teaching, Joni Mitchell, Melrose Place
 
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36. Austin Grooming Sequence (feat. Sister, Jack Mason, Jocko) PREVIEW

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-forever Smelly Sue torture sojourn to the DEPARTMENT STORE. Can I sniff my way to appreciate the pastime of my mother? Can we learn to enjoy the things we hate? Can the rhythms of Texas overcome trauma? My sis, a shrink, hops on the phone to help me review the case. 
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Guest Starring: Sister, Jack Mason of The Perfume Nationalist, & Jocko

SPECIAL EDITION 13: The Truth About Scott Adams (preview)

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. 
 
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35. Ellsworth Toohey Sings The Blues: Edinburgh Part III

There's no such thing as black and white, says the clever Scottish salesman. We're all just doing our best on the gray scale. Should you find yourself surfing that scale, serving customers at a fancy restaurant, here are some tips on how to make them order the special -- and convince them they enjoyed it. We hope YOU enjoy this seven course debate between two differing political views, served rare, with no anger, snobbery, or hard feelings of any kind. Appetizer supplied by our new sponsor, One Small Voices, on the censorship rages involving Hume, Dahl, James Bond and Sherlock Holmes. And for dessert: an intervention by Martin McDonagh.
 
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UNLOCKED: Glenn Greenwald at the Casino

I hit the Vegas tables with roulette mystic 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. FULL EPISODE NOW UNLOCKED, in honor of our mutual birthday. For 40 other premium episodes and secret chapters, including twice as many each month, subscribe at patreon.com/filthyarmenian to support the show.
 
Glenn Greenwald is the co-founder of The Intercept, host of the Rumble show System Update, and 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
 
Location: The Mirage Resort & Casino - Las Vegas, Nevada
 
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