Through the driving range, along the greenway, and beside the L.A. River -- a long hello to the life and times of Steve Sailer, the forbidden figure and famous shamus of the San Fernando Valley. Including how he became who he is, the art of noticing, and why America needs more sex drugs and rock n' roll.   Buy Sailer's excellent new book Noticing, out now from Passage Press.   For two secret chapters from this adventure, over twice as many episodes and regular "smoke break" mini eps, subscribe to the show at patreon.com/filthyarmenian   Follow Steve Sailer and Filthy Armenian Adventures on X   Rate, review, and spread the word!

Three mini episodes from a new regular feature available to Patreon subscribers since December. These are "lived-in" reviews of the Oscar winning travesty Zone of Interest, Nathan Fielder's show The Curse, and the latest season of True Detective.   For 10+ of these a month, plus over twice as many feature episodes, subscribe to he show at patreon.com/filthyarmenian   Thanks for listening!   @filthyarmenian

How did Cara Cunningham -- who, as "Chris Crocker," became an internet folk hero for urging the world to leave Britney alone -- find her way through MySpace stardom, gay porn, and Canceled Bitch Island to the hallowed Paglian enclave of free women, free men? We discuss.   For the full 2.5 hour episode -- plus over twice the adventures and regular "smoke break" mini eps on topics of the day -- subscribe to the show at patreon.com/filthyarmenian   Follow us on X and insta @filthyarmenian   Please spread the word, and leave a rating/review wherever you listen!

"All literature is gossip." A dish-fest on the rise and fall of Truman Capote, the acid fairy of American letters, and the elephant in the closet. With Jack Mason of The Perfume Nationalist, Adam Lehrer of Safety Propaganda, and Zach Langley of I'm So Popular   For full 3 hour episode -- and twice as many adventures, plus regular mini "smoke break" eps -- subscribe to the show at patreon.com/filthyarmenian   With commentary on Feud: Capote vs. The Swans, In Cold Blood, Conversations with Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany's, and Capote: A Biography by Gerald Clarke   Spread the word, review or rate where you listen, thank you and follow on X/insta @filthyarmenian

At the penthouse ballroom of the Horseshoe Hotel and Casino, I invite Curtis Yarvin, Delicious Tacos, Astral Flight, Mommy Milkers, Catherine, Vera, Isaac Simpson, Matt Pegan, Garin and everyone else to love Las Vegas, if only for a night.   For the full 1.5 hour episode, twice as many feature adventures, and regular "smoke break" mini eps, subscribe to the show at patreon.com/filthyarmenian   Follow us on X/insta @filthyarmenian   Thank you for listening

How do you grow up in a country where everyone wants you dead -- and escape with the help of Pasolini and Brando? Monica (Temple of Friendship) tells her story.    Reprised with a new intro, in light of recent triumphs and tragedies.   For twice as many adventures (including the most intimate and scandalous ones) and 10+ "smoke break" mini episodes a month, subscribe to the show at patreon.com/filthyarmenian   Follow us @filthyarmenian

A dream remembered. Designer Elena Velez discusses the math and aftermath of "Tomorrow Is Another Day," her bombshell Gone With the Wind-themed salon that toppled the media mannequins at NYC fashion week, the cold civil war, and the battle for artistic freedom.   To support the show and get access to twice as many adventures, plus several intimate "smoke break" mini eps each week (including a real time reaction from the salon) on topics and media of the day, subscribe to the show at patreon.com/filthyarmenian   Follow us on X/insta @filthyarmenian

Before they canceled him, Alfred Hitchcock made a movie about "the birds." Before they canceled her, Camille Paglia wrote an entire book about THE BIRDS. Here's why both are so prophetic of our henpecked times.    A gull session with Jack Mason of The Perfume Nationalist on two monumental figures in the Filthy Armenian landscape.    For the full 2.45 hour episode -- plus twice as many adventures overall, and regular exclusive "Smoke Break" mini eps on show, movies, and topics of the day -- subscribe to the show at patreon.com/filthyarmenian   Follow us on X/insta @filthyarmenian

There is daytime socialism. And there is nighttime socialism. George Orwell narrates a long summer night in Barcelona where a friend and I pursue a very different, but not entirely different, dream than the one that falls to pieces in HOMAGE TO CATALONIA.   For the full 2.5 hour episode -- and over twice as many adventures as well as exclusive daily "smoke break" mini eps -- subscribe to the show at patreon.com/filthyarmenian   Follow us on X/insta @filthyarmenian   Please rate and review wherever you listen, and spread the word!

Addressing the "curse" of Alec Baldwin Derangement Syndrome.   For twice as many adventures plus regular bite-size "smoke breaks" and heads up on next live event, subscribe to the.show at patreon.com/filthyarmenian   Follow us on X/insga @filthyarmenian   Take moment to review and rate the show wherever you listen, it helps.

The Mormon has gone clean, but his newfound inner peace meets a challenge in our return to L.A.'s oldest purveyor of soup...   To follow the full twisted adventure, subscribe to the show at patreon.com/filthyarmenian for over twice as many episodes.   Please rate and review the show wherever you listen, and follow us on X/insta @filthyarmenian

On January 6, in front of packed house at the Adventurer's Club Los Angeles (est. 1921), we perform a surrogate rebirth of the spirit of Christmas.   With Richard Hanania, Jack Mason (The Perfume Nationalist), Ben Braddock, DJ Gum Arabic, and Santa Claus.   For the full 2.5 hour episode -- and twice as many adventures overall, plus regular bite size "smoke break" eps -- subscribe to the show at patreon.com/filthyarmenian   Follow us on X/insta @filthyarmenian   Please rate and review where you listen and spread the word!

Wanted. America. Dead or Alive. Glen Rockney of Rare Candy and The Back Wall joins me for a dance to the haunting tunes and portents of Martin Scorcese's THE LAST WALTZ (1978), a documentary classic about the historic final concert where The Band and friends staged several of the greatest rock performances of all time.   For the full 2.5 hour episode, subscribe to the show at patreon.com/filthyarmenian to get access to twice as many adventures and support this travel agency for the soul.   In memory of Robbie Robertson, Levon Helm, Rick Danko, Richard Manuel, Muddy Waters, Dr. John, Paul Butterfield, Pops Staples, Neil Young, Sonny Boy Williamson, and Ray Charles. In thankfulness to Garth Hudson, Van Morrison, Bob Dylan, Eric Clapton, Mavis Staples, Joni Mitchell, Ringo, and all the other stars at Winterland.   Get your tickets to FAA presents WHITE CHRISTMAS at a hidden historic shrine to adventure in Los Angeles on January 6, a live show and festivity starring Amanda Milius, Richard Hanania, Santa and many other friends of the show.   Please rate, review, wherever you listen.    Follow us on X/insta @filthyarmenain

F. Scott Fitzgerald died a few steps below Sunset as a broken man and cautionary symbol of what Hollywood can do to your talent and soul. But how true is that fable? Matthew Specktor -- author of Always Crashing in the Same Car: On Art, Crisis & Los Angeles, California and founding editor of the L.A. Review of Books -- joins me on a journey from Fitzgerald's Hayward Ave. apartment to the Westmount Drive home of mercurial screenwriter Carol Eastman, in search of secrets to the shadow stars who aren't so easy to step on.   For twice as many adventures, please support the show by becoming a patron at patreon.com/filthyarmenian   Come to LA for our next live adventure and festivity on January 6 at a historic shrine to adventure hidden in the heart of the gold pole. FAA presents WHITE CHRISTMAS Tickets here.   If you like what you hear, please rate and review on your podcast app and spread the word to people you like.   Follow us on X/insta @filthyarmenian

Returning to the vaudeville theater on the boulevard of crime for the second half of Bob Dylan’s Rough n Rowdy Ways concert and album, the second act of his life, and the fateful question posed by his final American prophesy…   For twice as many adventures, including an upcoming episode on The Last Waltz and Volume One of this episode, please support the show by becoming a patron at patreon.com/filthyarmenian   Come to LA for our next live adventure and festivity on January 6. FAA presents WHITE CHRISTMAS starring Amanda Milius, Richard Hanania, Santa, Ben Braddock, and surprise friends. Tickets here.   If you like what you hear, please rate and review on your podcast app and spread the word to people you like.   Follow us on X/insta @filthyarmenian

Jumping off the Colorado Street Bridge -- which curves majestically over the Arroyo Secco, one of the driest rivers known to man -- is not as easy as it once was. But don't panic. It's not dark yet. My guest Isaac Simpson has a right wing ad agency that can rebrand your troubles using the ancient power of negative thinking. An adventure of light, lies, and the psyop behind "calamari."   If this free episode touches you, please subscribe at patreon.com/filthyarmenian for twice as many adventures, including the most intimate and scandalous ones.   Check out Isaac's substack The Carousel   Reviews on your podcast app are helpful and much appreciated.   Follow us on X/insta @filthyarmenian

Reviewing Chuck Klosterman's recent book THE NINETIES, my guest and I reminisce about -- you guessed it -- The Nineties, until both of us arrive at a state of deep and all-consuming melancholy.  The Nineties, that decade where history stopped, maybe to jerk off. How did we let that go? Where did we go so wrong? And most importantly: who can we point our fingers at?? Talkin' bout our generation...   Full 3 hour ep for subscribers at patreon.com/filthyarmenian   with Scott from St. Louis   Follow us on X/insta @filthyarmenian

On International Jihad Day, we find ourselves hunting for answers to horror in the Middle East in the historic hauntfest version of Knott's Berry Farm -- an iconic California theme park with a very important political secret of its own.   For the full 2.5 hour adventure -- and twice as many eps overall, including the most intimate and scandalous ones -- subscribe to the show at patreon.com/filthyarmenian and ensure the wheels keep turning.   With Jocko Homo and DJ Boytoy   Follow us on X/insta @filthyarmenian

I crash the home of anti-woke sex symbol Richard Hanania, in many ways the MLK of our time, for a wide-ranging backyard conversation on his life, romances, his new book The Origins of Woke: Civil Rights Law, Corporate America, and the Triumph of Identity Politics...and our aggressive off-white dream to make America fun again.   To support the show and get access to twice as many adventures, including the most intimate and scandalous ones, subscribe to the show at patreon.com/filthyarmenian   Follow us on X/insta @filthyarmenian. Follow our guest @RichardHanania and subscribe to his highly entertaining substack.    If the show moves you please leave a rating and review wherever you listen, and spread the word.

In honor of our first live show LOS ANGELES, unlocking a favorite bull session on Joan Didion's landmark SLOUCHING TOWARDS BETHLEHEM (and the odious Netflix documentary about her) with Jack Mason of The Perfume Nationalist.    For many more like this and access to twice as many adventures, including the most intimate and scandalous ones and our first live show recording, please subscribe to the show at patreon.com/filthyarmenian   X/insta: @filthyarmenian