In episode 438, System Of A Down front man Serj Tankian chats with Trey Elling about ⁠DOWN WITH THE SYSTEM: A MEMOIR (OF SORTS)⁠. Topics include:
His family in the Armenian Genocide (0:00)
The Lebanon Civil War (4:48)
Being an immigrant kid (7:38)
The music epiphany (10:32)
Dad's helpful advice (13:11)
"System Of A Down" meaning (15:05)
Rick Rubin (16:47)
His first visit to Armenia (19:47)
Criticizing the US, post-9/11 (21:31)
Spurning the Grammys (24:55)
B.Y.O.B. (28:22)
Steal This Album! & "Boom!" (29:16)
Maintaining creative freedom (31:15)
Compassionate confrontation (32:12)
Parenthood (33:48)
System's ONE Armenia show (37:30)
Showing Bourdain around Armenia (39:08)
An ode to America (42:42)
An ode to making music (43:27)
An ode to being Armenian (45:46)
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