COEXIST INC

No country suffers more from the American need for ancestral heritage than Ireland.

Ireland is full of hyphenated Americans who are looking for some kind of belonging because they do not have it in America. The American obsession with heritage is a kind of subconscious self-loathing. It is not enough to be American. It is not enough to have it all. No, we must be Irish, or Italian or EUROPEAN, even though we have no real relationship to those places. We gave that all up when we entered the diaspora. 

So what do the Irish think of "Irish-Americans?" How can you travel to Ireland without being a part of the problem? 

Brother Isaac is joined by Ciarán of Corner Späti to guide him through the land of a thousand welcomes. 

Also, support the show and and show your true Irish heritage with the new "Kill Me, I'm Irish-American" t-shirt. Available in white, black and green.

We will never colonize space. 

Smug folks love to look down on drunks who play the lottery. 

"The odds are a million to one! You'll never win! Better to save your money and put it towards something real, ya bum!" 

The math of a drunk playing scratch-offs is far superior to those who tell you we will "bring the light of consciousness to the stars." Our bodies can never permanently leave this earth . And yet, this is the contract Elon Musk has made with the global economy. 

Space X's $2.7 trillion valuation is premised on Musk colonizing Mars with one million human inhabitants. Maybe he will nuke the brains of one million Neuralink users and imprison them on the planet and fulfill his fiduciary obligations, but you'd be better off putting all your money into a POWERBALL lottery ticket. 

Why do people continue to believe in Musk? What happens when this promise that holds the global economy hostage fails to come to fruition? 

Fellow Musk-hater, Jacob Silverman, joins the show once again to gawk in horror at the existence of the world's richest man. 

Stephen Spielberg's Disclosure Day might be one of the worst movies of the 21st century. 

What does this mean for the UFO community? How could they have fumbled such a timely story? If you didn't believe in aliens already, this movie might vindicate that. If you do believe in aliens, this movie might have you questioning why you believed in the first place. 

Brother Isaac is joined by his friend and true believer, Ian, to discuss this massive disappointment.

Is it OK to watch the World Cup? 

This is the first time in history that a nation hosting the the FIFA event is at war with another participating country. 

The United States is somehow a worse than Qatar. Corruption is rampant. Prices are exorbitantly gouged. Visiting players are being treated like criminals. 

How can I maintain my principles and still watch the beautiful game? 

To figure out how, I am joined by Klonny (@parapowermapping) to talk about sports and why they cannot be abandoned. 

Sometimes I feel like I am at the center of the world. I’m not talking about that main character energy nonsense. I mean that living in Florida makes me feel l like I am close to beating heart of the evil empire. Our nefarious overlords practice on Florida first: Data centers, detention centers, etc. Sometimes it feels like Florida is the most American state in the country. 

But maybe I’m biased. 

There is one other state that rivals Florida’s centrality: Texas. So to find out which state is the center of the US empire, I am joined by Jake Rhodes of Pendejo Time.

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There aren’t many true believers left in the world today. Lots of people well perform their supposed principles. They will tell you they are good Christians or Communists or whatever, but a very quick glance will tell you it’s all just words. So on the eve of what appears to be an American military incursion on the tiny island nation of Cuba, I feel compelled to express my love for Ernesto Che Guevara. 

I know that his image has been tainted over the years by hipster merchandise, but don’t let that diminish you appreciation for a recent historical figure who was a principled, true believer. And definitely don't buy a word of those Cuban American gusanos who try to equate him to Hitler. Che was good.

On today's episode, I am joined by Ben and Jordano of Remember Shuffle to remind you just how incredible and inspire Che Guevara is and how to explain the prevalence of his image in the 2000s. 

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert is no more and Brother Isaac says not a moment too soon. Stephen Colbert is a husk of his former self. He once parodied bloviating conservative media pundits with deadpan perfection. Then, during the Obama and Trump years, he became a parody of the vacant liberal dem. One was funny, the other was not. 

People are blaming Trump for his cancellation, and maybe that's true, but its unfortunate because he should have been booted by his own lack of comedic merit. Now, he gets to be a liberal martyr in the fight against the bad orange man. He should be so grateful. 

To discuss the rise and precipitous fall of Stephen Colbert, Brother Isaac is joined by Brothers Ben and Jordano of Remember Shuffle. Be sure to follow them if you aren't already. 

Do you feel good?

You know you can always feel better?

Are you optimizing? Are you eating the right things? Are you listening to the right music? Give me your metrics. Give me your metrics. Give me your metrics. 

You did not sleep enough. You slept too much. You could feel better than you feel right now. 

Summer Emerald (@salesforcechild) joins Brother Isaac to teach you how to live well while living in hell. 

Be sure to check out Summer's exhibition, 5000 More Years and the Masur Museum of Art in Monroe, Louisiana. If you want to feel just right you must go and see it. 

Brother Isaac gets his mind blown by Laura (freudwasframed) again and again and again. 

The X-Files intro ends with "THE TRUTH IS OUT THERE." That means the truth is not here. The pursuit of UFO believers will have resolution. They're not unlike those Christian Millenarians waiting for the rapture. But what are the stakes of believing in aliens? What moral life choices does believing provide? Or is UFO belief symptomatic a society devoid of authority, community and ritual? 

Almost nobody is buying it. They could roll out a little green man and most of the American public would probably just demand he be deported. After another empty disclosure drop, it appears that most of us just don't seem to care about aliens. So who is all this disclosure for? Who are the believers? Why do they believe? And should you care to believe at all? 

For the first installment, Robert Skvarla, our Information War Corespondent, graces us with his presence.