Your consciousness is a cage built by dead people you never met. You're in hock to the company store, and now you're paying with your one wild and precious life. But stay tuned, because liberation can be yours when you discover this week's episode of Emerson Dameron's Medicated Minutes.

We're serving up taboo topics like psychedelics and power dynamics with a side of raw vulnerability that'll make your therapist blush. Get ready for a sonic journey through the underbelly of your belief system, where we'll perform emergency surgery on your certainties and replace them with questions that bite back.

Think you know something about success? Money? Sex? Think harder. Think smarter. We're dissecting the corpse of conventional wisdom and finding love notes from chaos tucked into its pockets.

Your favorite influencers are lying to you about meditation and manifestation, but they're too afraid to tell you about 5-MeO-DMT or why your horniness might be hiding an existential truth. We're not.

Listen as we strip away the Instagram filters from mental health and expose the raw machinery of depression, anxiety, and the cosmic joke of trying to give others what they want for you in a world that's collectively losing its mind.

Warning: Side effects may include:

• Persistent questioning of reality
• Sudden attacks of authentic self-expression
• Reduced tolerance for societal bullshit
• Uncontrollable urges to create art from your trauma
• A strange new comfort with uncertainty

Get ready to dive deep into the beautiful mess of being human, where porn meets philosophy and luck arm-wrestles with destiny. Your regularly scheduled programming of polite repression will be interrupted by breakthrough insights that'll have you questioning everything – especially yourself.

Don't just listen. Let it wreck you. Sometimes, destruction is a form of creation, and your comfort zone is just a pretty pet name for a prison.

Available now wherever you get your existential wake-up calls. Your ego won't like it, but your soul might thank you later.

Trust us. We're just as confused as you are, and that's precisely why you should listen.

"The Hyperliterate College Town Canoodlers" is a sequel to Salacity in Bloom, or at least exists in the same universe, or perhaps an adjacent or contiguous one.

Emerson Dameron's Medicated Minutes is LA's number-one avant-garde personal development program. New episodes premiere on KCHUNG Los Angeles on the first Wednesday of the month.
The writer, producer, host, and witty and wounded romantic hero is Emerson Dameron, who is wholly responsible for its content.
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