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The Fixerpunk Podcast
by Greyson Peltier
Bridging the divide between personal and social change. Punk rock, anti-authoritarian, leftist self-help, political, and social issues perspectives, with heavy inspiration from pro wrestling. Showing people and communities how to create their own solutions in their own lives that work with their reality instead of denying it. This in turn can impact society by empowering leaders in mutual aid and building dual power. As a former political organization leader, Greyson brings the wisdom of “fixers” who work for the powerful to the masses along with ideas from creative cultures and sports to build a better person and society for the common person. Follow Greyson Peltier @GreysonNation on Twitter and @Fixerpunk on TikTok www.fixerpunk.com
Episodes
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Restoring The Feeling + Keeping The Spirit of The Elite Alive in AEW
How do we #RestoreTheFeeling in AEW? I’m discussing the state and direction of AEW as a culture and a movement, and what I believe to be a unifying theme of what’s going on right now, as it has sometimes felt like The Spirit of the Elite and the Being The Elite mode of storytelling have faded…
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How Austerity Economics Kills Creativity and Stifles Social Change
What happens when the economic powers that be decide that there can be no more investment in new ideas, no more bones to throw at marginalized people, and that we all have to make money as quickly as possible? Can increased interest rates and tighter monetary conditions create changes in culture...
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Why The Right Wants You To Hate and Doubt Yourself - A Progressive/Leftist View of Self-Help
What do health and productivity optimization experts like Dr. Andrew Huberman, "dopamine addiction" experts like Dr. Anna Lembke, strict, clean-eating diets, personal finance experts, and welfare reform all have in common? Unreasonably high standards, rigidity, and traditionalism are common…
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Demystifying The Ideologies of Rich Men North of Richmond: A Former Conservative's Perspective
I wanted to very briefly share my unique perspective on the controversy around Oliver Anthony and Rich Men North of Richmond, a country song that has gained much popularity among conservatives and was referenced during the GOP presidential debate. Many seem baffled by Anthony’s attempts to…
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The Boss Who Requires Workers To Have Six Pack Abs and The Kayfabe of “Success Bros”
Car sales training company boss Andy Elliott says he will fire anyone without a six pack, as reported by the New York Post, and he was rightfully called out for his ridiculous standard. But this shows a larger trend of a specific type of very lean physique, being associated with wealth and…
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The Politics of Productivity Optimization, Dopamine Detoxing, & Habit Change
Mental performance and productivity optimizing techniques, like those popularized by Dr. Andrew Huberman, and the concepts of dopamine fasting, dopamine detoxing, and dopamine "addiction," partially popularized by Dr. Anna Lembke, have taken social media by storm, but do they really work and can...
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How Progressives & Leftists Can Win Over Groups Mainstream Democrats Have Failed
Recent polls have shown Democrats’ support has significantly declined among young men, specifically 12th grade high schoolers, lower income, less educated, and even Black and Latino voters. This should come as no surprise, given how Democrats have failed in all areas of long-term cultural...
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Money Matters for Progressives & Left Movements + Personal Finance Without Poor-Shaming
Both the finances of organizations and the finances of the people in our community, especially those who are involved in activism, individually matter to the success of progressive and leftist movements. Better financial security serves the goal of helping uplift the working class, and also makes...
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Fitness Shouldn't Be A Far-Right Thing
A recent tweet by MSNBC of an article about far-right and white supremacist radicalization in fitness and combat sports like mixed martial arts has drawn substantial attention and controversy to an issue that I have long viewed as imperative to protecting democracy and helping progressive…
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The Political Impact of Self-Help & Personal Growth Narratives - What Progressives Should Know
I have long said that this podcast is about Bridging The Divide Between Personal and Social Change, but I feel it is important to explain why exactly self-help and personal growth ideas matter for progressive and leftist movements. Narratives from finance to fitness to personal relationships can...
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The Economic Police State Is Coming For The Working Class in Little and Big Ways
What do the Supreme Court’s student loan ruling, Netflix sharing rules, Costco aggressively checking membership cards, return to office plans, and increases in homelessness all have in common? The Economic Police State operates on a system of surveillance, control, and seemingly random rules,...
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FTFP 15 - Changing Habits When Everything Seems To Get In The Way
Fixing The Fixerpunk episodes cover ideas about changing yourself and society from my own self-development process. Episode Links: My article on AEW International Champion Orange Cassidy, discussing how he refutes hustle culture and shows alternative paths to success:...
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Performance Mindset for Activists & Other Unique High Performers: Repressed Warrior Paradox pt. 2
Happy Father’s Day and Happy Juneteenth tomorrow for all who celebrate. I continue the discussion of the Repressed Warrior Paradox by explaining the key principles and steps in terms of self-care and mindset that activists, entrepreneurs, and other unlikely high performers need to follow if they...
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Stop Internalizing Oppression, Start Realizing Your Strength: Repressed Warrior Paradox part 1
Facing opposition and challenges way beyond what you expected? Feeling like you’re always being kicked when you’re down? Noticing a strange pattern of being called weak and small, while you’re being treated as the biggest threat in the world? It could be a sign you have strong potential and will...
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Use Respect and Hospitality, Not Force, to Get Homeless Into Hotel Rooms
Inside Safe, the initiative created by new Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass to move unhoused people out of encampments into hotel and motel rooms and ultimately more permanent housing has recently come under fire for poor, unsanitary conditions, uncaring staff, lack of food, poor communication, and...
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FTFP 14 - Standing Tall and Not Backing Down Amidst Manufactured Crisis
Fixing The Fixerpunk episodes cover ideas about changing yourself and society from my own self-development process. These are generally far more unstructured episodes. The inspiration for the title of today’s episode comes from Brandon Cutler’s quote from his match against Jon Moxley and Claudio...
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How Unions Can Help Solve The Student Debt Crisis and Skills Gap
“Degree inflation” is a known major issue: https://www.tearthepaperceiling.org/the-paper-ceiling Harvard study: 69% of jobs require a Bachelor's degree or higher, 50% of workers don't have one 61% of employers have rejected an otherwise qualified candidate because they didn't have a degree A...
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Economists Say Wages Aren't Causing Inflation, This Should Change Debt Ceiling Debate (but won't)
NPR interviewed a Federal Reserve economist and an economics professor from the University of Massachusetts who explain research that indicates profits are likely driving the majority of inflation, rather than workers demanding higher wages:...
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Tips To Make Dealing With The Healthcare System A Bit Less Painful
On this Advocacy Notes episode, I explain some of the most helpful lessons I’ve learned about dealing with the medical system in America while seeing multiple family members go through health issues over the past few months. Hopefully these tips will help you avoid unnecessary frustration and...
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FTFP 13 - Don't Let Late Stage Capitalism Gaslight You About Failure, Finance, or Fitness
Fixing The Fixerpunk episodes cover ideas about changing yourself and society from my own self-development process. - Life and health issues get in the way of everything - The best plan can still fail if things happen, and they do 3 assumptions of all kinds of personal improvement programs. Know...
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GOP Debt Ceiling Plans & Medicaid Work Requirements Are An Attack On Worker Power
Kevin McCarthy and House Republicans have introduced a bill to raise the debt ceiling that includes a wide variety of cuts, with the most devastating cuts to social safety net programs disguised as “work requirements.” This shows how the GOP agenda is primarily designed to reduce the leverage of...
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Solving Problems of Trust in AEW, Workplace Democracy, and Decentralized Creative Cultures
According to numerous media reports, CM Punk is expected to return to AEW on a new show on Saturdays called AEW Collision, with disputes in the locker room reportedly still unresolved, a situation that threatens the existence and identity of the movement itself. AEW has been a beacon of...
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How Do You Help Homeless People Who Won't Accept Help?
Listener Question: “When social workers and police poll the homeless people in my town 60% of them say they don’t want any assistance. But the amount of garbage, human waste, needles in downtown and residential areas keep increasing. How do we help those that haven’t decided they need a…
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Remote Work and How Workplace Democracy Can Make Businesses More Successful
- Older and disabled people need remote work and can contribute well to society with remote, but young people also highly value remote work - 2 in 5 Americans would rather die young than live in poverty...
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Why CM Punk Returning To Ring of Honor Might Just Make Sense
I discuss the challenges CM Punk presented to effective leadership and sustainability of the AEW movement, the missteps around his debut and run leading to this challenge, what we can learn from late pro skateboarder Jeff Grosso as well as The Rock, the claims Punk wishes to return, why an AEW...
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What Does Trump's Indictment Mean For The Left and Democrats in 2024?
A rush episode on some breaking news. Donald Trump has been charged with 34 counts of "business fraud" in New York. Details explained may not be perfect but I explain a general game theory-like framework to understand the political impacts on the 2024 presidential election and beyond. I also...
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A Less Oppressive Approach to Personal Finance + Credit Ahead of the Recession
Personal Finance Asceticism can be a tool of oppression. How should those on the left view personal finance ahead of the recession? This is NOT financial advice. -Interest rates are going up again, for now -The narrative around personal finance is important -Know the real causes of economic...
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Tips To Protect Yourself from Bank Collapses and Recession (if you're doing well now)
This episode is specifically designed for those of us who have done well through the pandemic era, have money saved up, and want to protect it. I will cover those currently facing hardships in a future installment. This is NOT financial advice. - Don't gaslight yourself. Don't feel bad. This is…
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Why Do People Oppose Policies That Benefit Their Class Interests?
This episode was inspired by a video on my TikTok about the Biden student loan forgiveness plan and the many comments therefrom, where ordinary people (I presume) fought so hard against the idea of a policy that helps others like them: https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTRW28eAb/ - Student loan debt...
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Affordable Housing Shortages and NIMBYs Are Killing People in LA - But Private Developers Can't Save Us
- Homelessness and housing was a clear narrative throughout the whole issue of the LA Times this past Sunday - Article on heat deaths of unhoused people: https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-02-19/la-me-homeless-heat-deaths - Other short-term solutions like cooling centers - 5 in 12 heat...
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California Fast Food Worker Pay Referendum & How Rich Political Donors Exploit Our Impulses
Quick State of the Union analysis: Biden did very well in handling heckling Democrats delivering for middle America, doing in reality what Trump claimed he’d do State of the Union shows the current political state of “extreme moderation” We are fighting for the bare minimum, but it’s a worthy…
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The Apparent “Randomness” of Racial and Economic Oppression Is The Point
This episode was born out of seemingly unrelated current events: the impending economic crisis and the tragic death of Tyre Nichols. I’ve found that the oppression of the working class through layoffs and recessions and the oppression of racial minorities through police brutality have way more in...
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Conservatives are subtly taking over broadcast TV. What can the left do?
I have noticed a troubling, growing trend of conservatives finding every way possible to take up space on broadcast television, just in the same way they have done with AM talk radio. This is partially being done with an interesting combination of Christian broadcasting and conservative political...
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FTFP 11 - The Right To Fail and Carry On
Fixing The Fixerpunk episodes cover ideas about changing yourself and society from my own self-development process. In our life, we have a choice to Carry On, even as we are seen as Wayward Sons or Go To Sleep and tap out in the fight for our goals and the change we want to see in the world. I...
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Fighting Toxic Masculinity with Pro Wrestling + Adam Page for President?!?
The left has come up short in looking for answers to the likes of Andrew Tate, but pro wrestlers like Adam Page have found a way to empower young men and help them feel their strength and constructively use the warrior in them while advocating for a broad set of progressive policy ideas in a...
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Creating Political Infrastructure and Processes for Progressive Victory
Political, Media, and Business Infrastructure that is robust, well-designed, and engages with the community is key for progressive victory. - The key difference between the left and right from my experience as a Tea Party organization leader - Will a local reporter know who to call for a...
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FTFP 10 - Understand Systemic Factors to Finally Succeed with New Year's Resolutions
Fixing The Fixerpunk covers ideas about changing yourself and society from my own self-development process. - What to do when none of the "evidence-based" models for achieving your health, fitness, other goals don't work - Find the solutions that work with your situation - Be flexible to adapt...
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Toward An Inclusive, Progressive Approach to Bodybuilding, Physique, and Strength Sports
Notes from this episode: - Influencers like Liver King, the Raw Egg Nationalist, and others have an approach allegedly based on “ancestral” ideas and returning masculinity to where it was centuries or decades ago. These ideas can lead to hateful ideologies and reversing achievements in civil…
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Liver King and Why Fitness Communities Matter for Inclusion + Progressive Organizing
Ripped from the headlines (no pun intended). - Liver King was found to be using performance-enhancing drugs while claiming not to use them and his results being from his diet of raw organ meats - Naturalistic bias - Far-right activists claiming “modernity,” including social inclusion and...
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Who will be hurt most by the recession and inflation control measures?
Please go and vote!!! http://vote.org I cover: - The Real Causes of Inflation - The best inflation solutions that help the working class - How Republicans’ plans ultimately hurt people while supposedly reducing inflation - What is Elasticity of Demand and why does it matter in designing effective...
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CM Punk All Out Remarks - WARNING SIGNS in Social Movement Leadership
AEW is a social movement in the sport of pro wrestling, The Young Bucks, Kenny Omega, and Adam Page are its main founders. CM Punk came in and changes started to happen, some of which seemed to be outside of the core values of the movement, and an old personal dispute popped up again out of…
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CM Punk’s Heel Turn + Feud with Adam Page: Alternative Culture, Values, and Selling Out
I explain how the CM Punk and Adam Page feud as well as Punk’s heel turn are driven by differences in ethical approaches as it comes to leadership as well as the lessons from this story for cultural and social movement leaders. Adam Page sticks by his values and the true culture of his movement,...
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FTFP 7 - Spending on Self-Care and Mental Health, Fun as a Motivator
I cover a variety of topics on this Fixing The Fixerpunk installment: - Prioritizing both self-care and fun - Acknowledging and celebrating your existing success - Costs of Autism and ADHD therapy versus ADHD coaching - Talking about money with your parents when you are an adult living at home -...
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Patient Advocacy Notes: Dental HMO Scams and How To Resolve Most Health Insurance Disputes
This brief episode can help if you want to know how to complain about your doctor, how to complain about your dentist, or how to dispute an overcharged medical or dental bill. Steps for most plans below. Other notes from my experience: Avoid Dental HMOs. They lead to overcharging. Though lasers…
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My Adam Page Story and The Danger of Cultural Co-Optation
Are you an Adam Page fan? Let’s talk. Email [email protected] or use the form on Fixerpunk.com. (If you’re in Southern California, let’s meet!) Let’s be our own Dark Order and support each other through this difficult time after he lost the championship to CM Punk. I touch upon how Adam...
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Relatability, Culture, and Professionalism in Progressive Organizing
Gaining political power can be expensive, and can every once in a while get a little weird, because the work covers diverse disciplines, but it is certainly rewarding. In this episode, I cover: - The importance of creating cultural narratives, even in unexpected places, to help counter extremist...
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FTFP 6 - Full Gear Challenge...or Not
Will I be full gear ready this summer? A quick episode to discuss my fitness goals and progress, or lack thereof. The importance of a progressive/leftist fitness narrative is also briefly touched upon.
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Build Back Better and The Great Disconnect in Politics
On this episode, I discuss the failure of Build Back Better, the disconnect between Democrats and average voters, and how a more courageous progressive approach rather than being caught up in what voters can perceive as technicalities can help Democrats at the polls in 2022. Key points: -...
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Never Underestimate A Slow-Burn Storyline for Social Change, Anxious Millennial Cowboy Lessons
This very late episode covers NEW AEW World Champion Adam “Hangman” Page, slow-burn storylines of the sports type, and the political and social change slow-burn storyline of the Great Resignation and Anti-Work. I discuss the foibles of the “general strike” attempts in October and political…
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Cedar Point Nursery v Hassid Case and 3 Key Principles of American Society
In order to change the system or advocate and build a better life for yourself, you need to understand not only the rules of your society’s social and political system but also its underlying principles. The rules that are set up in law or in customs, and even sometimes the popular sense of...
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Bridging the divide between personal and social change. Punk rock, anti-authoritarian, leftist self-help, political, and social issues perspectives, with heavy inspiration from pro wrestling. Showing people and communities how to create their own solutions in their own lives that work with their reality instead of denying it. This in turn can impact society by empowering leaders in mutual aid and building dual power. As a former political organization leader, Greyson brings the wisdom of “fixers” who work for the powerful to the masses along with ideas from creative cultures and sports to build a better person and society for the common person. Follow Greyson Peltier @GreysonNation on Twitter and @Fixerpunk on TikTok
www.fixerpunk.com
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