Jukebox variety show on Josh Safdie's Marty Supreme, the final gift of Scott Adams, the passing of Bardot, assorted news, and a bedtime story about two gay friends who just happen to be Armenian. For full episode, subscribe to the show at patreon.com/filthyarmenian   Follow us on X/insta @filthyarmenian

End of year sermon on the curious silence surrounding Luca Guadagnino's AFTER THE HUNT (most important movie of 2025), its connection to Thomas Vinterberg's THE HUNT (most important movie of the century), and what both have to say about recent discourses on the plight of the white millennial man.   For twice adventures and exclusive spiritual gossip, subscribe to the show at patreon.com/filthyarmenian   Follow us on X/insta @filthyarmenian   If you value what you hear, spread the word

Looking for Christmas lessons in Willoughby with the help of a nuclear holocaust, a magical black child, several harpy wives, a suicidal trumpet and other spiritual stocking stuffers only to be found in...The Twilight Zone. For the full 3 hour episode -- and twice as many adventures overall -- subscribe to the show at patreon.com/filthyarmenian Guest starring Yeerk of Bistro Californium. If you like what you hear, spread the word

The Personal Palisades Tour takes a distressing turn as I struggle to find the idyllic childhood home where internet was discovered, Kobe grew his fro, and hot-and-sour soup was ladled for the teenage soul.   For twice the adventures plus regular "smoke break" mini eps on spiritual gossip of the day, subscribe to the show at patreon.com/filthyarmenian   Follow on X/insta @filthyarmenian   If you like what you hear, please spread the word etc.

Is it still possible to be raped by art? On a rainy traumatic afternoon in Paris, Matthew Wilder and I ponder the question.   For the full 2 hour episode, and more than double the adventures, subscribe to the show at patreon.com/filthyarmenian   Follow on X/insta @filthyarmenian   If you like what you hear, pls spread the word

A very personal tour of the ashen ruins of Pacific Palisades begins on the street where I was taught some elemental truths about life, authority, belief and the Holocaust.   For twice as many adventures and exclusive "smoke break" mini-eps on spiritual gossip of the day, subscribe to the show at patreon.com/filthyarmenian   Follow on X/insta @filthyarmenian   If you like what you hear, spread the word.

An immersive rumination on the gay cruising nightlife captured in Andrew Holleran's 1978 masterpiece Dancer from the Dance, its modern day shadow offspring, and the morals of the story...   Guest starring Zach Langley of I'm So Popular   For the full 2+ hour dance -- and twice the feature eps plus regular "smoke break" mini eps on spiritual gossip of the day -- subscribe to the show at patreon.com/filthyarmenian   Follow us on X/insta @filthyarmenian   If you like what you hear, spread the word

HALLOWEEN SPECIAL: a tour of the Doheny Greystone Mansion in Beverly Hills, site of the still-unsolved 1929 murder mystery that inspired Raymon Chandler and the genre of L.A. noir. Guest Starring Matt Pegas, author of The Black Album   For access to twice as many adventures, plus regular "smoke break" mini episodes on topics of the day, subscribe to the show at patreon.com/filthyarmenian   Follow us on X/insta @filthyarmenian

In the nuclear fallout of recent cinematic Chernobyls, we turn for guidance to the cool imperial mind of master noticer-storyteller Somerset Maugham, who gave us a timeless satire of literary culture and clout-chasing in his novel Cakes and Ale (1930) and reached some uncomfortable conclusions about the meaning of art in his intellectual memoir The Summing Up (1936).   For the full 4 hour bull session, subscribe to the show at patreon.com/filthyarmenian   Guest starring Matthew Sini and Matt Fresca from the Getting Lit podcast   Follow us on X/insta @filthyarmenian  

Some thoughts on the worst movie ever made, by Paul Thomas Anderson. This is a regular feature exclusive to subscribers of the show at patreon.com/filthyarmenian -- enjoy this free sample, and subscribe for regular heart-to-heart messages on topics of the day, in addition to double the full-length episodes.  Follow on X/insta @filthyarmenian

Eureka! Literary treasure has been found. It is called My Search for Warren Harding, and it's about one man's zany scheming quest for literary treasure (the love letters of "the shallowest president in history") in early 1980s Hollywood. It is the funniest thing I have read in a long time, and perhaps the most enjoyable novel ever written about L.A. Robert Plunket joins me to reflect on how he came to compose this closet masterpiece (1983), his even queerer follow-up Love Junkie (1992), his 30 year career as Mr. Chatterbox (Sarasota's beloved gossip columnist), how he almost swung the 2000 election, his proximity to Bush on 9/11 and Ruebens during PeeWee's 9/11, and what it was like to be raised by spies.   For twice the adventures plus regular "smoke break" mini eps on topics of the day, please subscribe to the show at patreon.com/filthyarmenian   Follow us on X/insta @filthyarmenian

The rage, the pride, more lessons, and how not to be depressed by the predictable aftermath of the murder of Charlie Kirk.   For the full 2 hour episode, subscribe to the show at patreon.com/filthyarmenian   Guest starring Amanda Milius, director of The Plot Against The President. Related: FAA 9. Amanda Milius on Sunset Strip   Follow on X/insta @filthyarmenian

Naming names, unamerican activities, and the many subtle lies being deployed to distract you from the meaning of the murder of Charlie Kirk. With Jack Mason of The Perfume Nationalist   To support this show and get access to twice as many full episodes, plus regular "smoke break" mini eps on topics of the day, subscribe on patreon.com/filthyarmenian    Follow on X/insta @filthyarmenian

for the weekend

A tribute to the David Lynch of broadcasting -- the voice of baseball, the voice of summer, the voice of the long Los Angeles afternoon -- the narrator of 67 years of American boyhood, the great Vin Scully.   For twice the full adventures plus regular "smoke breaks" on topics of the day, subscribe to the show at patreon.com/filthyarmenian   Glen Rockney is the co-host of Rare Candy and The Back Wall   Follow on X/insta @filthyarmenian

Juicy nuggets from a deep dive into the letters of Raymond Chandler -- on Hammett, Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Hitchcock, Hollywood Jews, Catholics, Communists, the model for Ellsworth Toohey, the writer's life and the craft of writing, and more -- plus the only surviving evidence of his literal voice, from a 1959 interview with Ian Fleming six months before Chandler died.   For double the adventures (including last week's on Raymond Chandler in Los Feliz) plus regular smoke break mini-eps on topics of the day, subscribe to the show on patreon.com/filthyarmenian or filthyarmenian.substack.com   Follow us on X/insta @filthyarmenian

Snooping around the House of Pies and the home of Raymond Chandler in Los Feliz, in search of the secrets behind Philip Marlowe. Guest starring Steve Sailer.   For the full 2.5 hour episode, plus double adventures and regular exclusive "smoke break" mini eps, subscribe to the show at patreon.com/filthyarmenian   With reference to: The Big Sleep - Farewell, My Lovely - The High Window - The Lady in the Lake - The Simple Art of Murder - The Little Sister - The Long Goodbye - Playback - Raymond Chandler Speaking - The Selected Letters of Raymond Chandler - and all the movie adaptations   Related listening: 90. The Big Sleep 72. Sailer on the Green

Masculinity on screen, immortality hobbies, and a vigorous debate between homo and hetero ideology are inspired as Matthew Wilder and I wrap our heads around Robert Altman's dreamy 1977 masterpiece 3 WOMEN at Cafe Les Ogres in Paris, France.   For the full 2 hour episode + double the feature adventures + plus exclusive "smoke break" mini eps on topics of the day subscribe to the show at patreon.com/filthyarmenian   Follow on X/insta @filthyarmenian

Hop aboard the Brolita Express! Find a seat between Orwell and Borges. We're stopping in Austin and London on our way to Hive, a mysterious Greek island run entirely by women, ruled by a masked queen, where only the manliest men are sometimes invited. Jack Mason (The Perfume Nationalist) and Yeerk (Bistro Californium) are on the list. And so of course is my old friend Garin Hovannisian, illusionist and author of the must-read new novel HIVE, which I urge you all to read while summer is with us. The audio in Austin in the first half is low, so please raise your volume then adjust as we cross the pond   For twice the feature length adventures, and regular smoke-break mini eps on topics of the day, subscribe to the show at patreon.com/filthyarmenian   If you joined us IRL in LA or Austin or NYC or London, it was lovely to see you.

A show about a mystery about the loss of love and magic from our lives -- and how to get it back. Guest starring Garin Hovannisan, author of the new novel HIVE.   Part 1: Hollywood Edition. Recorded live on Hollywood Boulevard, a few steps from Grauman's Chinese, on June 14.   For double the adventures plus exclusive "smoke break" mini eps on topics of the day, and excess to future live events, subscribe to the show at patreon.com/filthyarmenian