The Fixerpunk Podcast

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 common than you think in the subtle mechanism by they hijack our minds, change our political attitudes, and influence behavior. The episode is also a bit of a botch, since I recorded a much better take of it but my microphone was somehow not feeding audio into the software and I had to re-do the whole thing. 

Notes

• LA Times article on layoffs “The real aim of big tech’s layoffs: bringing workers to heel”: https://apple.news/AhbHrrkzxT3Kol0DQn4RL7Q

• The cruelty is the point
• How our minds internalize subtle cues
• Police give impossible, confusing

commands to justify excessive force

• Tech companies are using layoffs to keep workers in line and stop them from getting what they have earned through collective action and bargaining 
• How small groups get more power than they merit through random actions of oppression
• Talk of recession keeps workers in fear and erodes their gains
• How layoffs are executed without rhyme or reason makes workers give up more than they need

• How layoffs are executed without rhyme or reason makes workers give up more than they need to

• Making things look like a “force of nature” or just what happens on its own because of an external force

• How politicians and bosses make us blame ourselves for bad things
• Tech workers are starting to realize the benefits of unions
• Giving into petty tyrants and oppressive ideas will not keep you safe or leave you better off in the end.

• You must learn to think differently!
• Media programming people to only consider certain solutions

• Generational divide in views of alternatives to policing
• What actually works to keep communities safe

• Success with reduced police intervention
• Workers better off now and with more power than they’ve had in years
• Republicans’ debt ceiling threats and their non-specificity are deliberate
• Creative thinking driven by crisis: George Floyd and COVID economic crisis
• Flow states and political change
• Tyre Nichols was a great skater
• What skateboarding taught me

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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 media, which opens up yet more avenues for funding right-wing media, while the left remains far behind.

– Discussion of left-wing media ecosystems and infrastructure versus the right
– How is the left really doing? Good on content, low on infrastructure
– Great examples in Means TV, Street Fight Radio, etc.

– Conservative talk radio’s prevalence
– Right-wing media taking over broadcast sub-channels
– Article on One America News Network entering over-the-air broadcast after being kicked off cable and satellite: https://www.nexttv.com/news/misinformation-finds-a-way-oan-goes-ota-re-invents-itself-as-broadcast-subchannel
– How OAN and NewsMax are staying in business
– Large Christian broadcast ownership groups buying up stations, first radio, now TV
– How conservatives seem to be using church monies to prop up right-wing media
– Christian evangelism shows funded by 501c3’s on right-wing TV networks
– Dangers of relying on digital and social media only
– Some direct response TV advertisers will buy almost any network/station with a conventional broadcast signal somewhat indiscriminately
– FCC rules are way less strict than social media platforms
– A televangelist organization that is worth almost a billion dollars
– Political content and endorsements from 501c3 televangelists
– TV channel leasing
– One example in Los Angeles of a station leasing out to conservatives is KFLA-LD channel 8. http://kfla.tv
– TikTok is a growth channel for progressive causes
– Communicating with your base and keeping them entrenched 24/7/365
– Media spend by churches on conservative stations is actually counter-productive
– How to protect your advocacy organization from social media bans
– The importance of minority-owned media and LPFMs

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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 choose to Be Elite and Carry On. Hesitating in whatever you are doing can ruin both your experience and your success, but reluctance is often caused by relationships and material conditions of a punitive society without adequate social safety nets wherein minor failure results in catastrophic results one cannot recover from. We have a choice in how we structure systems, to allow failure and let people learn to fly or to force people to just give up and Go To Sleep. A progressive approach that includes systems that allow people to recover from failure enables greatness and maximizes the potential of individuals and the community as a whole. We must respect the Right To Fail.

In this episode:

– Attending AEW Dynamite in LA
– Get the best experience out of major events (like wrestling shows) by setting yourself up for a flow state.
– Lean into and use your anxiety to heighten excitement rather than pushing it down. Bonus tip: Choose the right music around the event to set the mood
– See also the Manufacturing Stoke episode: https://podcast.greysonpeltier.com/wp/2021/02/15/manufacturing-stoke-using-anxiety-and-negative-emotions-positively/
– Post-wrestling show motivation surge
– Social anxiety
– When your high-class parents disagree with your hobbies
– My family doesn’t want me around wrestling fans
– Getting on national TV for a brief moment, sort of
– My sign on Twitter: https://twitter.com/eliteanxious/status/1616639451039686657?s=21&t=aQ-waef71RDdPhXasNO3LQ
– Fighting for a better life versus tapping out to your circumstances
– Getting the best quality of life with health issues or disabilities
– Playing it too safe
– Hesitation explains my whole life. Mike Bennett’s blog on this topic: https://therealmikebennett.com/blog/f/dont-hesitate
– Learning to stop hesitating is key to recovering from and preventing relapses in major mental health issues
– The right to fall down and get back up again is fundamental and should be a leftist or socialist ideal
– Tony Hawk’s philosophy: You must learn to fail in order to learn to fly.
– Bad doctors and concussions
– Recovery practices are important for peak performance
– Your intention in all things matters
– Feeling like I am going to lose my fitness progress by taking some time off
– Woke does not have to equal weak
– Progressive ideas allow people to achieve success by making it possible to overcome failure
– Overly reactionary wokeness
– Giving people grace
– Why skateboarding culture is what brought me to the left
– Narrative therapy as a possible ideal therapy theory for those who like pro wrestling redemption storylines

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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 relatable way. Creating solidarity is possible and beneficial to society and to the young men that are being more harmed than helped by toxic masculinity influencers, and whose issues would be better helped by left-wing policies and workers’ rights.

More on Adam Page here:

https://podcast.greysonpeltier.com/wp/2021/07/28/can-a-millennial-cowboy-wrestlers-ways-save-our-social-and-political-discourse/

https://podcast.greysonpeltier.com/wp/2023/01/12/adam-page-for-president/

– The Power of “I Earned It”
– Contrasting the conventional mental health narratives
– Incorrect interpretations of the left by young men
– A candidate you can have a beer with
– Blending traditionalist aesthetics with progressive ideas
– Imperfection and vulnerability
– Taking a strong but grounded, moral, and ethical approach
– Lots of great progressive examples in wrestling
– Better storytelling
– Not repressing masculine desires
– Anxious masculinity – read my article here: https://www.prowrestlingmusings.com/post/adam-page-shows-how-to-wrestle-with-anxious-masculinity
– I highly recommend Adam Page’s book Adam and the Golden Horseshoe if you are dealing with not feeling good enough
– Who people like Andrew Tate target and how they do it
– Intersectionality and Incels work together?
– A society where you are able to fall and get back up again
– Finding your peace

Adam Page’s Inspiring Entrance with Dark Order: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MsfEiZ_IY2U

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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 progressive perspective on an issue?

– Will members of the community know where to go with an issue?

– Recessions are the Super Bowl of conservative organizing and when the working class starts to lose gains

– Just being active online and semi-anonymous isn’t a strategy

– Setting up proper legal documents and procedures

– What happens if something goes wrong with your main leader? You want to have a plan.

– The networks of innumerable conservative entrepreneurs across the country willing to throw money and expertise at their cause

– Organizations should be formed legally and have separate bank accounts once they bring in money

– The chaos that happens when key people leave a progressive organization

– The dangers of using Cash App, PayPal, and similar for philanthropic, social entrepreneurship, or organizing efforts.

– Conservatives being overrepresented at school board meetings

– On the ground: Does your group feel safe and a friendly place to be in?

– Media infrastructure

– Building a progressive Andrew Tate

– Embracing entrepreneurship and expertise

– Campaign and PAC bank accounts must be separate and you need legal counsel.

– Work with experts who get you – who care about your values, follow your culture, and will not overtake your agency

– Maintaining your grassroots, self-organizing structure

– The better you create your practices and infrastructure, the more freedom and success you will have

– Be ready to deal with professional stakeholders and to take in opportunities for funding as they come

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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 models to serve your needs best
– When therapy/CBT does not work
– Your “excuses” could be key to finding a solution for your goals
– Dr. America Bracho TED Talk on Non-Compliant Patients and improving healthy eating and exercise in oppressed minority populations:
– People who are dealing with bad circumstances are as much of experts as scientific experts and those who have succeeded.
– Tracking metrics and having positive feedback/coaching to encourage you
– How I dropped 16 pounds while only tracking part of the time
– Flexible dieting and strength training for fat loss
– Don’t give up just because the normal approaches don’t work
– Don’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good
_ External feedback from family
– Economic justice, unions, and worker self-determination lead to more innovation
– Finding your own path in work and business
– Deviating from accepted norms shows intelligence and intellectual flexibility
– Employers treating workers badly hurts all of us
– My New Year’s Resolution is the Young Bucks’ motto: Killing The Business
– Getting rid of the old business models, social norms, and corporate micro-management oppression
– Diversity improves the quality of products and services, corporate rigidity and work rule rigidity screws all of us out of our full potential
– Biased medical and mental health research
– Preparing for the recession
– The system is designed to deprive the working class of its gains
– Why prepping your personal finances keeps you free and protects your power as a worker to challenge employers’ and the system’s oppression
– Shielding against impulsive spending
– When things no longer serve you
– Certificates of Deposit (CDs) – check bankrate.com
Also consider High Yield Savings Accounts!
– How interest rates affect the working class who save up money versus those with massive wealth
– Invest in self-improvement with the recession coming or not?

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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 rights in order to return to the ways of that earlier time that were more “masculine,” but also promote misinformation on fitness and often poorer results than expected.

– The fact that some, emphasis on some, of what these influencers say works leads people to trust them and hence trust their ideas on other issues, such as political and social issues, especially for those who are vulnerable due to hardship in their lives

– Progressives can gain a foothold in the fitness narrative by showing the truth and empowering young men to solve the true systemic origins of their challenges

– We can be vocal on the gaps in mental health, fitness, and physical health and how they work together

– Conservatives have very strong business and media ecosystems and their engagement in fitness is no exception

– Avoid fit-shaming: Pathologizing physique athletes and body positivity alone (though it is important) aren’t the right way to engage

– These are athletes who want to practice their sport. Let them.

– Pushing bodybuilders and people who want to work on elite-level physique development to the margins only worsens radicalization.

– Lessons from skateboarding

– More than 1 in 3 high school students expressed interest in strength training as a sport option. – Aspen Institute Project Play report

– Progressives’ leadership in drug legalization can extend to harm reduction for PEDs

– The right is controlling fitness science even though most scientists are on the left

– There is a need for fitness experts who combine inclusion with good fitness science to help those who are left behind by overly simplistic or non-inclusive fitness “experts”

– 59% of Americans have a chronic illness and often primary doctors do not provide good diet and fitness advice

– Combining strong exemplars that culturally align with the target audience, vulnerability, and practical approaches is the way forward

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Referenced on this episode:

FTFP 6: Full Gear Challenge…or Not

Can A Millennial Cowboy Wrestler’s Ways Help Save Our Social and Political Discourse?

https://www.aspenprojectplay.org/school-sports/playbook

https://www.prowrestlingmusings.com/post/adam-page-shows-how-to-wrestle-with-anxious-masculinity

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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 methods to fix high prices?

– The Coming Recession: Who Benefits and Who Will Suffer?

– Which groups of workers will lose their jobs the soonest?

– Who will be most hurt by the recession and what can we do to help it?

– How to choose the politicians you want in office when the recession hits

– Diversity, equity, and inclusion in the workplace at risk

– The “Enhancement Talent” of the American economy

– Public benefits as an important measure to protect against the recession

– Emotional trauma from recessions

– Inflation and Recession Risk and their impact on labor organizing

– Big business using inflation and recession to stop workers from demanding what they deserve

– How unions protect workers against recessions

– How to start thinking about protecting yourself from the recession and resulting employer manipulation against workers

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