Filthy Armenian Adventures

Lifelong Democrat Max (who lost his house in Alta Dena), lifelong Republican Matt Himes (who lost his house in Palisades), and model citizen Josh Rainer Gold join me to issue a ringing endorsement ahead of the June 2 primary election for mayor of Los Angeles between Spencer Pratt, Karen Bass, and Nithya Raman.

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Situated across the once idyllic now infernal MacArthur Park since 1947, Langer's Delicatessen has emerged as a symbol of what's at stake (and at pastrami) in the battle for the soul of L.A. Owner Norm Langer treats me to a #19 before letting loose on the mayor race, the deli business, the history of the neighborhood, and what it will take for the last "premier deli city in America" to survive.

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How Gary Indiana's tale of unrequited love-lust amid the AIDS epidemic in Horse Crazy (1989) foreshadowed the Simptuationship Era of contemporary romance.

A nocturnal rumination with Zach Langley of I'm So Popular.

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What secret quality is needed to survive the current onslaught of warring hyperrealities with your soul and sanity intact? Jacob Siegel, 9/11 veteran and author of The Information State: Politics in the Age of Total Control, tells his story.

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Jukebox episode reviewing The Drama by Kristoffer Borgli and the Iran War by Donald J. Trump.

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Personally selected passages from Witness, Whittaker Chambers's deeply emotional memoir about testifying to -- and against -- the ideology that dare not speak its name.

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On the falsification of history known as the Red Scare -- as revealed in Leslie Fiedler's tremendous essays on the Hiss-Chambers trial, the Rosenbergs, and Joseph McCarthy in An End to Innocence (1955) -- and how communism has re-infiltrated American culture today in the form of systemic Woman.

With Jack Mason of The Perfume Nationalist and Ben Braddock

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David Mamet called his films "irrefutable proof of the afterlife." I call him the poet laureate of American capitalism. Matthew Wilder joins me to investigate the secret sauce of the comic genius who gave us The Great McGinty, Christmas in July, Sullivan's Travels, The Lady Eve, Miracle of Morgan's Creek, Hail the Conquering Hero, The Palm Beach Story, and Unfaithfully Yours.

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What can Hollywood (and the haunted souls who still occupy it) learn from another picture-based entertainment industry that once was dead, but is now reborn? I probe my personal history and tragedies in the sports card trade, from the late 90s to the present day, for all they are worth.

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Since their "indescribably fiendish" origins in the Civil War, picture cards taught American boys how to smoke/chew/trade/lust/worship/collect/invest/gamble/deal with Japs... and of course how to remember. In part one of this deep dive, I review the wild history of this extremely American hobby and business from its shocking birth to its billion dollar boom and bust in the early 1990s...before I entered the scene.

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