Episode 39

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18th Mar 2025

Corporate Vultures Circle What's Left of Austin's Soul

Description: The festival that once discovered new bands now discovers new ways to data-mine your bowel movements. While tech bros with expensive sneakers debate "post-digital consciousness," actual musicians are relegated to Instagram backdrop duty in their own backyard.

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This scorcher dissects how counterculture breeds commerce with surgical precision. Why? Because nothing gives a tech bro a harder boner than monetizing your rebellion. The VCs patrol Austin like colonial explorers with Patagonia vests instead of pith helmets, expertly harvesting authenticity while their startups hemorrhage cash. That $18 toast isn't breakfast—it's the corpse of creativity wearing AirPods.

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About the Podcast

No Filter Nation
I don't mean to get off on a rant here, but...
NO FILTER NATION
Where sacred cows become hamburger meat.

Welcome to NO FILTER NATION, the podcast where we take a blowtorch to conventional wisdom and watch it melt like a Dali clock in the Sahara. I am Khayyam, your cynical Sherpa through the wasteland of modern absurdity.

Every other day, I grab society by its metaphorical truck nuts and give it the kind of reality check that would make your guidance counselor weep. This isn't your typical "both sides have valid points" horsesh*t that passes for discourse these days. This is raw, unfiltered commentary served up with references so obscure they'll make you feel like you're watching a History Channel documentary on bath salts.

What separates NO FILTER NATION from the avalanche of mediocre podcasts cluttering your feed? I don't give a flying f@% about your comfort zone. While other hosts sanitize their opinions to avoid offending the Twitter mob, I'm setting up a goddamn lemonade stand on the third rail of controversy.

Topics we've disemboweled include:
- Why modern parenting is creating a generation of emotional hemophiliacs
- How political correctness turned discourse into intellectual hospice care
- Why your cryptocurrency "investment" is basically a digital pet rock
- The staggering hypocrisy of celebrity environmentalists with carbon footprints the size of Luxembourg

Each episode features my signature "Rant" — inspired by the warm glow of my babysitter (television) playing Dennis Miller, George Carlin, and Richard Pryor — where I pick apart some aspect of our increasingly deranged culture with surgical precision and even sharper wit. I'm not here to be your friend or validate your worldview. I'm here to be the cognitive defibrillator that shocks your brain back into critical thinking mode after years of celebrity worship and social media lobotomization.

If you're the type who needs trigger warnings before discussing weather patterns, this podcast will give you PTSD. But if you're tired of intellectual bubble wrap and yearn for someone to call bullshit on the parade of absurdity we've normalized. I am Khayyam and I'm now the guy with NO FILTER NATION and hopefully your new addiction.

So download NO FILTER NATION if you want commentary that treats your intelligence like an adult rather than a particularly slow toddler. Because in a world of podcasters trying to be your bestie, I'm just trying to make sure you don't suffocate in the quicksand of your own cognitive biases.

New episodes land every other day. Unlike your therapist, I won't cancel last minute or charge you for telling you the truth.

Of course, that's just my opinion. I could be wrong. But I'm f@%ing not.

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