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.
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Tuesday Oct 18, 2022
Tuesday Oct 18, 2022
A lived experience review of the Halloween franchise becomes a strawberry blonde-haunted road into the origins of the horror fetish, aided by the footprints at Grauman's Chinese, the drunks at The Roosevelt Hotel, Liz Taylor's secret and Ru Paul's Hollywood star. For the full (3.5 hour) episode, subscribe at patreon.com/filthyarmenian
Locations: Grauman's Chinese Theater, Hollywood Boulevard, The Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel, 25 Degrees diner, Hollywood and Highland parking lot
Starring John Parks and introducing Jocko Homo
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Thursday Oct 13, 2022
Thursday Oct 13, 2022
Bad art, good art, mom art, pop art. Can the abstract expressions, conceptual provocations, and preternaturally perky tits of Edward Hopper's 78-year old wife restore our innocence before it gets shattered again at the Biennale down below? Art critic Harry Tafoya and I attempt to forge a lost masterpiece among The Whitney's permanent collection.
Location: Whitney Museum of American Art - New York, NY
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Thursday Oct 06, 2022
Thursday Oct 06, 2022
How do you grow up in a country where everyone wants you dead — and escape with the help of Pasolini and Marlon Brando? "Mommy Milkers" Moche tells her story.
If you like what you hear, subscribe at patreon.com/filthyarmenian for the full immersive cultural adventure, including recent patron-only episodes The Dimes of Our Lives, The Blonde Pill feat. Ayn Rand (a "lived experience" review of Andrew Dominik's Blonde), and Glenn Greenwald at the Casino.
Location: On the air
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Friday Sep 30, 2022
Friday Sep 30, 2022
What, exactly, is Dimes Square? Is it the most problematic neighborhood in all of New York, as countless thinkpieces from journalistic outlet writers have claimed? Or is it proof through the night...of something else? The truth may shock you. My latest:
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Featuring author Adam Lehrer, artist Bradford Kessler, art critic Harry Tafoya et al.
Location: Clandestino, TIME restaurant, Clockwork Bar - Chinatown, New York City
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Monday Sep 26, 2022
Monday Sep 26, 2022
A "lived experience" review of Andrew Dominik's Blonde, fresh out of the Laemmle Noho theater, following a reading of Ayn Rand's righteous celebration of Marilyn Monroe published two weeks after her death. For the full (1:45) episode, subscribe at patreon.com/filthyarmenian
Location: North Hollywood, California
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Friday Sep 16, 2022
Friday Sep 16, 2022
With Armenia under attack, I embark on a solo tour of its haunted joyous capital city of Yerevan, taking measure of my people, their shadows, and the competing illusions this city is known to spawn.
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Saturday Sep 10, 2022
Saturday Sep 10, 2022
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?
To follow the complete twisted adventure, subscribe at patreon.com/filthyarmenian for access to over 20 secret chapter episodes including "Anarchy at Freedomfest," where I talk to the FreedomFest co-founder JoAnne Skousen and other characters from the largest libertarian festival in the world 18 years after I last attended.
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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Thursday Aug 25, 2022
Thursday Aug 25, 2022
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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Saturday Aug 06, 2022
Saturday Aug 06, 2022
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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Tuesday Jul 12, 2022
Tuesday Jul 12, 2022
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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