The Existential Static Podcast

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What happens when you trade corner stores for cacti?
 In this episode of Existential Static, I’m spiraling about the culture shock of moving from Brooklyn to Las Vegas because apparently, I wanted to know what overstimulation feels like when it’s surrounded by mountains and drive-thrus.

We’re talking about:

• East Coast hustle vs West Coast chill
• The existential dread of missing your bodega
• Why silence at night is scarier than sirens
• How identity shifts when you leave the place that raised you

It’s not just a relocation, it’s a reset. And it’s weird.

New episode streaming now.

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Remember when you could just buy something?
Like, walk into a store, grab your stuff, pay, and leave?

Yeah. That’s over.

Now you need a membership, subscription, rewards card, login, and a free trial you’ll forget to cancel.
 You can’t even pump gas without being asked to join a loyalty program.
 Coffee? Membership.
 Dog food? Subscription.
 Inner peace? $12.99 a month, auto-renewal required.

We’re living in a world where everything is a service, even basic life functions.
 And if you don’t sign up? Cool just pay double.

In this new mini-episode of Existential Static, I spiral about the subscription economy and why it feels like we’re being trapped in a never-ending cycle of logins, passwords, and fine print.

This isn’t just a rant, it’s a daily overstimulation spiral we’re all quietly living through.

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Before the pill was approved for women in the U.S., it was tested on poor Puerto Rican women.

In the 1950s, researchers ran large scale trials of the first birth control pill on women in Puerto Rico. They were told it would prevent pregnancy.
What they weren’t told?

• The pill was experimental.
• It came with dangerously high doses of hormones.
• There were severe side effects—and three women died, without autopsies.

This is the story of how colonialism and medicine collided, using women’s bodies as experiments.

In this episode of Existential Static, we break down the Puerto Rico birth control trials, the racist and colonial logic behind them, and how these patterns still echo in reproductive health today.

Because history like this doesn’t go away, it repeats.

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Puerto Rico’s education system is collapsing, and it’s not an accident.

In this episode of Existential Static, we break down the brutal truth of what’s happening inside classrooms across the island. We talk about shuttered schools, underpaid teachers, rising tuition at the University of Puerto Rico, and the emotional toll of watching entire communities lose access to education.

We also get into PROMESA, the U.S. imposed Fiscal Control Board that prioritizes Wall Street profits over public services, forcing cuts to schools and universities while investors get paid.

But this isn’t just about loss, it’s about resistance.

We highlight the grassroots efforts fighting back. Community learning centers, tutoring networks, student strikes, and local organizations keeping education alive when the government won’t.

Because education isn’t just about books, it’s about survival.

Topics Covered:

• School closures & teacher migration
• The University of Puerto Rico crisis
• PROMESA and austerity cuts
• Privatization and corruption in education
• Community-driven educational resistance

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In this episode of Existential Static, we dig deep into Puerto Rico’s ongoing power crisis and the people who are taking the light back.

We unpack the decades long neglect of the island’s electrical grid, the devastation of Hurricane María, and the highly controversial privatization under LUMA Energy. From rising bills to deadly blackouts, Puerto Ricans are paying the price for corporate mismanagement, political silence, and systemic abandonment.

But this isn’t just a story of collapse. It’s a story of resistance.

We explore how communities across the island from grassroots collectives to solar pioneers like Casa Pueblo are bypassing the broken system and building something of their own. Microgrids, solar brigades, mutual aid. The people are making power where there is none.

This episode isn’t about disaster. It’s about defiance.
 Because Puerto Rico doesn’t need saving, it needs sovereignty.

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Topics covered:

• LUMA Energy and the failure of privatization
• The lasting impact of Hurricane María
• Energy inequality and systemic neglect
• The Jones Act and economic strain
• Grassroots solar initiatives and energy justice
• Community empowerment and future resilience

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Welcome to one of my many random mini rants. 

Some of us weren’t raised on calm.
We were raised on chaos. On background noise. On yelling that didn’t always mean anger and silence that almost always meant something was wrong.

So now?
Silence doesn’t feel peaceful. It feels… suspicious.

This mini episode of Existential Static is about growing up overstimulated, over alert, and never fully relaxed. It’s about what happens when your nervous system gets so used to noise, it forgets how to trust quiet.

If you’ve ever felt like calm makes you more anxious than conflict, this one’s for you.

🎧 New episode: “When Silence Feels Unsafe” is out now.
📍 Link in bio to listen.

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Link to Pa'Lante Newspapers - https://dlib.nyu.edu/palante/

This episode isn’t soft. It isn’t curated. It’s real.
 Because what's happening in Puerto Rico is nothing new, it's just wearing new clothes.

We talk about the Taíno people, the original caretakers of the land, and how their culture, language, and resistance still live in us.

We talk about the Young Lords, who flipped anger into action and demanded dignity for a community that the system threw away.

And we talk about Act 60, a so called “economic incentive” that’s displacing Boricuas from their own streets while billionaires pay zero in taxes and post about their island reset.

This episode is for those of us who live between pride and grief.
For the ones who are tired of seeing their culture marketed, their families pushed out, their identity reshaped by outsiders.

It’s not just about what’s being lost.
It’s about what we’re still holding on to.

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 Spoken from the bones. Not the brochure.

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In this episode of Existential Static, we’re talking about Puerto Rico, beyond the beaches and beyond the branding.

What does it mean to grow up Puerto Rican in the States? To be raised with culture, music, and pride, but still feel like a guest when you visit the island? We get into the complicated identity of being raised away from the island while still deeply tied to it.

We also talk about what’s happening on the island now. Gentrification, rising rents, and how locals are being pushed out by outsiders turning family homes into Airbnb's.

This episode is for anyone who’s ever felt caught between pride and displacement, tradition and transformation.

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New episode just dropped.
This one’s different. It’s about Bushwick. It’s about Brooklyn. And it’s about what happens when the place that raised you gets rewritten by money and marketing.

We’re talking:
 – Corner stores before they sold kombucha
 – Block parties that didn’t need permits
 – Sitting on milk crates
 – Gentrification that pushed people out, priced others in, and renamed everything

It’s not just about change, it’s about loss.
 And nostalgia. And weird anger you can’t explain.

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Episode: From Corner Stores to Condos
🎧 Streaming now. Link in bio.
 

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If you’ve ever spent 45 minutes drafting a two-line text or rehearsed saying “here for pickup” on loop in your head, this episode is for you.

In this spiral, we unpack the daily emotional labor of speaking like a normal human. Texting anxiety, accidental “you too” moments, email sign-off panic, and the crushing shame of a voice note you should’ve deleted but sent anyway.

Talking shouldn’t be this hard. And yet... Here we are.

🎧 Listen now, overthink later.