Filthy Armenian Adventures

Art, drugs, or religion? Reviewing the Playstation classic Alan Wake 2, Adam Lehrer and I speculate on the nature, potential, and business of video games.

Adam Lehrer is deputy editor of Tablet Magazine and host of System of Systems

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Mike White as our Molière, what normies and bossy bottoms miss about The White Lotus, and the astonishing Christian conclusion to season three that nobody is talking about.

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Guest starring Cara Cunningham and Adam Lehrer (deputy editor of Tablet Magazine and host of System of Systems)

Borges called CITIZEN KANE a "labyrinth with no center" but it was the center of the labyrinth that was Orson Welles, and our final destination in the second half of this tour of the magician's career, after we pass through TOUCH OF EVIL (1958), THE TRIAL (1962), THE IMMORTAL STORY (1968), F FOR FAKE (1975), and THE OTHER SIDE OF THE WIND (2018)... and realize that in his flaws, if not his greatness, Orson Welles was a lot like us.

Zoomer Orson Welles protege joins me for a Citizen Kane-like adventure through the entire career of the man who believed in magic perhaps too much -- or, perhaps, too little. We look at almost every film he made, we lean in for his radio, we applaud his theater, we gasp at his tricks and read his biography ("Rosebud" by David Thomson). Maybe we can find out what this giant boy was missing...

With Darius Csiky host of 8pl8s podcast

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Best novel about Washington D.C. and first movie to openly depict homo is a harrowing, eternal tale of the lonely gay man who stands up to the communist blob. Jack Mason of The Perfume Nationalist joins for a state of the union spurred by Allen Drury and Otto Preminger's ADVISE AND CONSENT.

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I review the Oscar-nominated biopic A Complete Unknown, before reprising my own interactive case for Bob Dylan the artist, the man, and the prophet on a mission to make America great again.

Originally aired in 2023 as "Bob Dylan on Hollywood Blvd. Vol 1 & 2," this is one of my deepest most personal solo adventures, full of outlandish historical claims that might be fun to compare to how things are turning out.

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Coffee and milkshakes at the historic diner where David Lynch saw Frank Booth fuel this meditation on the secret ingredients of his genius in the early period from ERASERHEAD (1977) to the world-altering masterpiece BLUE VELVET (1986).

Guest starring filmmaker Matthew Wilder (AMERICAN MARTYR, YOUR NAME HERE).

Location: Bob's Big Boy in Burbank

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What did David Lynch know that we don't know? The first stop on that investigation is LOST HIGHWAY (1997), the ultimate movie about O.J. and Nicole and the burning of Los Angeles.

Also reviewed: "David Lynch Keeps his Head," David Foster Wallace's essay from the set of that movie in Griffith Park.

Yeerk of Bistro Calfornium joins me for our first deranged ride into the genius of a departed master.

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Last January 6, we vowed to defeat the Grinch regime by resurrecting Santa and dreaming of a White Christmas. How did that weird plan turn out? In this intimate Filthy Armenian Christmas Special, live from the Gold Pole, Santa and special guest Steve Sailer examine the evidence under the tree, celebrate the coming of a new age, and unwrap the miracles of the last year.

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