In this episode, Raymond breaks down what long-term care actually means (hint: it's way more than diapers), why Gen X is uniquely squeezed between raising kids and caring for aging parents, and why "I'll figure it out when it happens" is the most expensive plan you can have. He also admits something most people in his industry won't say out loud: he doesn't enjoy being a caregiver. And that's exactly why he plans for it.

If you've been avoiding this conversation — this one's for you.

🎙️ Guest: Raymond Lavine — Co-author of Empathy and Understanding in Business, host of Planning with Purpose and The Caregiver's Blueprint

📌 Topics covered:

→ What long-term care planning actually means for a regular family

→ Why caregiver burnout causes real mental health crises

→ How LTC insurance works (and what it actually pays for)

→ The "sandwich generation" squeeze on Gen X

→ Why self-insuring is a bigger gamble than most people realize

→ How to start planning even on a tight budget

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The CommonX Podcast features long-form conversations with musicians, cultural voices, veterans, entrepreneurs, and independent thinkers who bring lived experience to the table. Hosted by Jared Mayzak and Ian Primmer, CommonX explores music, culture, work, identity, resilience, and the systems that shape everyday life—without talking points or manufactured outrage.

From iconic artists and creative pioneers to everyday people with extraordinary stories, each episode prioritizes honesty, curiosity, and meaningful dialogue. This is a Gen-X–driven show for listeners who value depth over noise and conversation over clicks.

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If you've ever felt like the process is rigged — that the real decisions happen before you ever see a name on a ballot — this one's for you.

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🕐 CHAPTERS

0:00 — Intro: politics as a group text nobody can leave

2:07 — Meet Tom Joseph, founder of America's Main Street Party

2:14 — What is gerrymandering, actually?

4:52 — The COVID breaking point that started all this

7:05 — How the people's primary app works

9:10 — Getting nominees onto the actual ballot

10:17 — The ideologically neutral Super PAC

12:25 — When did Tom realize the whole nomination process was broken?

15:49 — How this cuts the cord between candidates and donors

16:40 — Operating inside the current legal system without changing it

18:49 — What a people's primary looks like for an everyday citizen

21:18 — Local committees and keeping them incorruptible

22:28 — The term limits debate

24:03 — The Digital Democracy Project (Ramon Perez is coming on the show)

25:20 — Keeping it non-ideological: equal red and blue districts

26:42 — Reaching younger voters who've already checked out

27:44 — Can this actually break gerrymandering?

28:40 — Public response so far — and why mainstream media won't cover it

30:04 — James Wilson and the "fountain of democracy"

31:59 — Who's most threatened by this idea (the answer will surprise you)

33:08 — To the skeptics: someone will just corrupt this too

34:44 — A system from 1929 that hasn't caught up with technology

37:31 — What's kept Tom going when everyone said it couldn't be done

38:52 — What America looks like in 5–10 years if this works

40:20 — A message to the politically homeless

41:32 — Mobile voting security: blockchain, face ID, and Carnegie Mellon

42:38 — Jared's Five: movies, cartoons, and collecting John Lennon's autograph

49:10 — Outro

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CommonX is two Gen X dads talking to people actually doing things in the real world. New episodes weekly.

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The CommonX Podcast features long-form conversations with musicians, cultural voices, veterans, entrepreneurs, and independent thinkers who bring lived experience to the table. Hosted by Jared Mayzak and Ian Primmer, CommonX explores music, culture, work, identity, resilience, and the systems that shape everyday life—without talking points or manufactured outrage.

From iconic artists and creative pioneers to everyday people with extraordinary stories, each episode prioritizes honesty, curiosity, and meaningful dialogue. This is a Gen-X–driven show for listeners who value depth over noise and conversation over clicks.

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Kira built TurboTax Full Service at Intuit, evaluated 600+ venture deals, and grew up across Ukraine, Israel, and the U.S. — giving him a front-row seat to information warfare in three different cultures. He's not just complaining about the problem; he built a solution: news by SMS, no accounts, no ads, no data collection, just facts from primary sources.

Whether you still watch cable news or you've checked out entirely, this one will make you rethink how you consume information.

Check out Kira's company: https://inform.now

📌 CHAPTERS

0:00 — Ian's overcooked intro

0:43 — Meet Kira Shishkin

1:46 — Why he left Intuit and TurboTax Full Service

2:51 — How Inform.now works: news by SMS

4:15 — Sourcing only from primary sources

6:46 — How news became an advertising business

9:44 — Are people waking up to media manipulation?

12:09 — AI in journalism: useful tool or dangerous shortcut?

21:46 — The coming era of information overload

25:54 — What a healthy information diet actually looks like

28:51 — Growing up in Ukraine, Israel, and the U.S.

33:42 — SMS, anonymity, and radical privacy

36:16 — Will the world be more or less informed in 10 years?

38:19 — Evaluating 600+ venture deals — does Inform.now pass its own test?

41:42 — Are we living in truly unique times?

43:21 — Is America's division real, or manufactured by media?

45:26 — Jared's 5 rapid-fire questions

51:02 — Outro

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The CommonX Podcast features long-form conversations with musicians, cultural voices, veterans, entrepreneurs, and independent thinkers who bring lived experience to the table. Hosted by Jared Mayzak and Ian Primmer, CommonX explores music, culture, work, identity, resilience, and the systems that shape everyday life—without talking points or manufactured outrage.

From iconic artists and creative pioneers to everyday people with extraordinary stories, each episode prioritizes honesty, curiosity, and meaningful dialogue. This is a Gen-X–driven show for listeners who value depth over noise and conversation over clicks.

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Adam is the founder of Us United, a national unity movement built around one core idea: you can't sympathize with a label, only a person. In this conversation, he shares what he actually found on the road (spoiler: people are more united than you think), why Generation X needs to stop sitting on the fence, and the surprisingly simple things each of us can do to change the culture starting today.

We also dig into his unlikely friendship with Sheriff Chris Swanson — the Flint, Michigan sheriff who famously took off his body armor and walked arm-in-arm with protesters in 2020 — and how that moment sparked the creation of Us United.

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Chapters:

00:00 — Intro & welcome

01:00 — Why Adam walked away from finance

03:00 — Meeting Sheriff Chris Swanson & the Flint march

06:00 — How Us United was born

08:00 — Sheriffs as community unifiers

13:00 — The cross-country road trip

16:00 — What Adam found: America isn't that divided

20:00 — Gen X needs to get off the fence

22:00 — What's fueling the divide (it's not just politics)

28:00 — The power of storytelling: the redlining conversation

32:00 — Shaq's one-word definition of unity

33:00 — National Unity Day, December 13

38:00 — Simple things every American can do right now

41:00 — If you were president for a day...

45:00 — Jared's Five

50:00 — Adam's personal story: success built from collapse

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The CommonX Podcast features long-form conversations with musicians, cultural voices, veterans, entrepreneurs, and independent thinkers who bring lived experience to the table. Hosted by Jared Mayzak and Ian Primmer, CommonX explores music, culture, work, identity, resilience, and the systems that shape everyday life—without talking points or manufactured outrage.

From iconic artists and creative pioneers to everyday people with extraordinary stories, each episode prioritizes honesty, curiosity, and meaningful dialogue. This is a Gen-X–driven show for listeners who value depth over noise and conversation over clicks.

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In this episode of CommonX, we sit down with Robert Siciliano — bestselling author, cybersecurity expert, and the architect of the Strategic Human Firewall framework. He's appeared on CNN, Fox News, CNBC, and Anderson Cooper 360, and been featured in the Wall Street Journal, Forbes, and The New York Times.

We break down:

→ The "human blind spot" — why we're biologically wired to trust, and how criminals exploit it

→ Why denial is the #1 driver of data breaches (not hackers)

→ AI deepfakes, voice cloning, and how a fake Zoom call cost one company $25 million

→ The Strategic Human Firewall — how to build a security culture that actually works

→ Why 15 billion compromised passwords are sitting on the dark web right now

→ The real reason your IT team still uses default passwords

This conversation could literally save your business — or your bank account.

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⏱️ Chapters:

00:00 – Intro: Why humans are the real security risk

06:30 – The Human Blind Spot explained

10:00 – Denial, trust, and the 3–6% predator problem

17:00 – Making security personal (the key that's being missed)

22:00 – Pig butchering & wrong-number crypto scams

28:00 – How to build a Strategic Human Firewall

31:30 – The $25M AI deepfake Zoom call

40:00 – Dark web, passwords, and 2FA

47:00 – Jared's 5 rapid fire

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The CommonX Podcast features long-form conversations with musicians, cultural voices, veterans, entrepreneurs, and independent thinkers who bring lived experience to the table. Hosted by Jared Mayzak and Ian Primmer, CommonX explores music, culture, work, identity, resilience, and the systems that shape everyday life—without talking points or manufactured outrage.

From iconic artists and creative pioneers to everyday people with extraordinary stories, each episode prioritizes honesty, curiosity, and meaningful dialogue. This is a Gen-X–driven show for listeners who value depth over noise and conversation over clicks.

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In this conversation, Barbara shares how a career in trauma response turned out to be the perfect preparation for communicating with the dead, why skepticism can actually block a reading, and what the "other side" is like according to the spirits she speaks with (spoiler: no anger, no judgment — only love and joy).

She also walks Jared and Ian through a simple exercise that helps grieving people receive signs from their loved ones on their own — no medium required. The stories she shares, including a disabled daughter whose gold nugget was simply being "normal" on the other side, are hard to forget.

Whether you're a believer, a skeptic, or just curious — this one will make you think differently about grief, loss, and what it means to be here.

🔗 Learn more about Barbara at BannerMedium.com

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The CommonX Podcast features long-form conversations with musicians, cultural voices, veterans, entrepreneurs, and independent thinkers who bring lived experience to the table. Hosted by Jared Mayzak and Ian Primmer, CommonX explores music, culture, work, identity, resilience, and the systems that shape everyday life—without talking points or manufactured outrage.

From iconic artists and creative pioneers to everyday people with extraordinary stories, each episode prioritizes honesty, curiosity, and meaningful dialogue. This is a Gen-X–driven show for listeners who value depth over noise and conversation over clicks.

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Dr. Spears breaks down the myth of the "apolitical" military, explains how that word was weaponized against conservative service members under the Biden administration, and makes a compelling case for why the recent strikes on Iran are justified under just-war tradition — even as someone who considers himself nearly an isolationist.

Plus, Jared dives deep on the Anthropic vs. Department of War showdown over AI guardrails and autonomous weapons, and Chase responds to the "Seditious Six" controversy around Senator Mark Kelly.

In this episode:

• What military public affairs actually does — and where it goes wrong
• How the Army went from banning social media to running viral Rapid Response accounts
• Why Anthropic (makers of Claude AI) refused to remove safety guardrails for autonomous military weapons
• The word "apolitical" and how it was used to silence constitutional-minded service members
• Why Chase got written up just for asking about conscience protections on the transgender policy
• Were the Iran strikes justified? A combat vet's honest take
• The "Seditious Six" — treason or protected speech?
• Why public trust in the military collapsed in 2022 — and whether it can recover
• Over 8,000 troops still unaccounted for after the COVID mandate purge
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The CommonX Podcast features long-form conversations with musicians, cultural voices, veterans, entrepreneurs, and independent thinkers who bring lived experience to the table. Hosted by Jared Mayzak and Ian Primmer, CommonX explores music, culture, work, identity, resilience, and the systems that shape everyday life—without talking points or manufactured outrage.

From iconic artists and creative pioneers to everyday people with extraordinary stories, each episode prioritizes honesty, curiosity, and meaningful dialogue. This is a Gen-X–driven show for listeners who value depth over noise and conversation over clicks.

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Peter shares how a personal experience with his mother's Medicaid application led him to build a platform that reduces a 209-question process down to about 20 questions and completes applications in 12 minutes. He explains how his company feeds better data into existing state systems without costly rip-and-replace upgrades, flags fraud before it enters the system, and helps rural hospitals recover billions in uncompensated care.

Topics covered: Medicaid application reform, government fraud detection, rural hospital funding, VA disability benefits, the uncompensated patient problem, ACA subsidy expiration, and why trust in institutions gets rebuilt one brick at a time.

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The CommonX Podcast features long-form conversations with musicians, cultural voices, veterans, entrepreneurs, and independent thinkers who bring lived experience to the table. Hosted by Jared Mayzak and Ian Primmer, CommonX explores music, culture, work, identity, resilience, and the systems that shape everyday life—without talking points or manufactured outrage.

From iconic artists and creative pioneers to everyday people with extraordinary stories, each episode prioritizes honesty, curiosity, and meaningful dialogue. This is a Gen-X–driven show for listeners who value depth over noise and conversation over clicks.

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In Episode 74 of the CommonX Podcast, we sit down with Oscar Hedaya (founder of SpaceSafe) to talk about why physical security still feels stuck in the 90s, what it takes to build hardware + software the hard way, and why “visibility + accountability” is the real upgrade: tamper notifications, movement alerts, and a safer that can work connected or offline.

We also get into the realities of manufacturing (margins, development costs, PCB mistakes you only make once), what it would take to expand into bigger safe formats (yes… gun safe conversations), and Oscar’s long-term goal of selling the company and using his time to help other founders.

The CommonX Podcast features long-form conversations with musicians, cultural voices, veterans, entrepreneurs, and independent thinkers who bring lived experience to the table. Hosted by Jared Mayzak and Ian Primmer, CommonX explores music, culture, work, identity, resilience, and the systems that shape everyday life—without talking points or manufactured outrage.

From iconic artists and creative pioneers to everyday people with extraordinary stories, each episode prioritizes honesty, curiosity, and meaningful dialogue. This is a Gen-X–driven show for listeners who value depth over noise and conversation over clicks.

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The economy feels weird.

Politics feels weird.

Culture feels weird.

And apparently Gen X is now officially old enough to have a magazine.

So we ask the question:

Is everything falling apart…

Or are we just seasoned enough to see the cracks?

We talk about:

• Why institutions feel unstable

• The “middle child” generation perspective

• Scarcity mindset vs abundance thinking

• Whether Gen X is uniquely positioned to lead

• Why chaos might actually be transition

Plus — what happens when the generation raised on latchkeys, MTV, and “figure it out yourself” becomes the adults in the room.

No doom spirals. No yelling. Just perspective — with a little humor.

If you’ve ever thought, “Is it just me…?”

It’s not just you.

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The CommonX Podcast features long-form conversations with musicians, cultural voices, veterans, entrepreneurs, and independent thinkers who bring lived experience to the table. Hosted by Jared Mayzak and Ian Primmer, CommonX explores music, culture, work, identity, resilience, and the systems that shape everyday life—without talking points or manufactured outrage.

From iconic artists and creative pioneers to everyday people with extraordinary stories, each episode prioritizes honesty, curiosity, and meaningful dialogue. This is a Gen-X–driven show for listeners who value depth over noise and conversation over clicks.

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From war zones and famine crises to the failures of global systems, Claire shares what it means to witness suffering firsthand — and still choose compassion.

We explore:

• What real humanitarian work looks like behind the scenes
• Why bureaucracy often slows lifesaving action
• The emotional cost of caring
• Moral courage in a world increasingly driven by self-interest
• How ordinary people can still make extraordinary impact

This episode is not about politics.

It’s about humanity.

And the question:

Have we lost our sense of responsibility to each other?

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The CommonX Podcast features long-form conversations with musicians, cultural voices, veterans, entrepreneurs, and independent thinkers who bring lived experience to the table. Hosted by Jared Mayzak and Ian Primmer, CommonX explores music, culture, work, identity, resilience, and the systems that shape everyday life—without talking points or manufactured outrage.

From iconic artists and creative pioneers to everyday people with extraordinary stories, each episode prioritizes honesty, curiosity, and meaningful dialogue. This is a Gen-X–driven show for listeners who value depth over noise and conversation over clicks.

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We discuss:

• The incarceration of 120,000 Japanese Americans under Executive Order 9066

• The Supreme Court decision in Korematsu v. United States

• The biological warfare atrocities of Unit 731

• The Cold War immunity granted to figures like Shiro Ishii

• The Soviet Khabarovsk trials

• Why parts of WWII history are widely known — and others are barely discussed

This episode examines fear, civil liberties, wartime propaganda, and the difficult moral tradeoffs governments make during global conflict.

History is rarely simple. And sometimes what we don’t learn says as much as what we do.

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The CommonX Podcast features long-form conversations with musicians, cultural voices, veterans, entrepreneurs, and independent thinkers who bring lived experience to the table. Hosted by Jared Mayzak and Ian Primmer, CommonX explores music, culture, work, identity, resilience, and the systems that shape everyday life—without talking points or manufactured outrage.

From iconic artists and creative pioneers to everyday people with extraordinary stories, each episode prioritizes honesty, curiosity, and meaningful dialogue. This is a Gen-X–driven show for listeners who value depth over noise and conversation over clicks.

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After losing three of his closest friends, including one to suicide and another in a tragic accident, John spiraled into years of substance-fueled avoidance. What followed was guilt, emotional shutdown, and a reckoning that forced him to confront who he had become.

This is a raw conversation about:

• Suicide and survivor’s guilt
• Addiction in high-functioning environments
• Losing your inner circle
• Fatherhood and responsibility
• Turning pain into purpose
• Why Guardian Angels AI was built

This episode isn’t about hype. It’s about what happens when life shatters you — and you decide to build something meaningful anyway.

If you’ve ever lost someone, numbed yourself to cope, or wondered how to rebuild after rock bottom… this one’s for you.

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The CommonX Podcast features long-form conversations with musicians, cultural voices, veterans, entrepreneurs, and independent thinkers who bring lived experience to the table. Hosted by Jared Mayzak and Ian Primmer, CommonX explores music, culture, work, identity, resilience, and the systems that shape everyday life—without talking points or manufactured outrage.

From iconic artists and creative pioneers to everyday people with extraordinary stories, each episode prioritizes honesty, curiosity, and meaningful dialogue. This is a Gen-X–driven show for listeners who value depth over noise and conversation over clicks.

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In the wake of a fatal shooting involving federal agents and a lawfully armed citizen, the national conversation moved fast. Accusations. Statements. Counterstatements.

But what does the law actually say?

In this episode of Common-X, we sit down with constitutional law professor Adam Winkler to separate political rhetoric from legal reality. As a leading expert on the history of gun rights and gun regulation in America, Winkler explains how the Second Amendment has always existed alongside firearm laws — and why that balance is foundational to the American system.

We discuss:

• What the Second Amendment truly protects
• How courts interpret gun rights
• The tension between individual liberty and public safety
• Whether America is facing a constitutional crisis
• What happens if executive power defies judicial authority

This conversation moves beyond headlines and into the structural foundations of American governance.

If you care about rights, regulation, and the future of constitutional order — this is one you don’t want to miss.

The CommonX Podcast features long-form conversations with musicians, cultural voices, veterans, entrepreneurs, and independent thinkers who bring lived experience to the table. Hosted by Jared Mayzak and Ian Primmer, CommonX explores music, culture, work, identity, resilience, and the systems that shape everyday life—without talking points or manufactured outrage.

From iconic artists and creative pioneers to everyday people with extraordinary stories, each episode prioritizes honesty, curiosity, and meaningful dialogue. This is a Gen-X–driven show for listeners who value depth over noise and conversation over clicks.

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We dig into how comedy has shifted in the age of short clips and viral incentives, why context keeps collapsing in media and public discourse, and how algorithms reward reaction over understanding. Victor breaks down how comedians are forced to adapt—not just creatively, but structurally—when jokes are stripped of nuance and redistributed without intent.

The conversation also touches on creative tools, including Victor’s work with Magic Bookifier, and the broader question of whether technology is flattening human expression—or simply revealing the systems that already were.

This episode isn’t about cancel culture or tech panic.

It’s about incentives, attention, and why absurdity might be the most honest response left.

The CommonX Podcast features long-form conversations with musicians, cultural voices, veterans, entrepreneurs, and independent thinkers who bring lived experience to the table. Hosted by Jared Mayzak and Ian Primmer, CommonX explores music, culture, work, identity, resilience, and the systems that shape everyday life—without talking points or manufactured outrage.

From iconic artists and creative pioneers to everyday people with extraordinary stories, each episode prioritizes honesty, curiosity, and meaningful dialogue. This is a Gen-X–driven show for listeners who value depth over noise and conversation over clicks.

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This episode is a raw, unfiltered rant sparked by growing concerns around Spotify, platform power, and who really controls speech in the so-called “creator economy.”

After facing threats of removal, we ask the uncomfortable questions:

• Are platforms still neutral, or are they quietly becoming gatekeepers?
• What happens when algorithms, advertisers, and corporate optics decide what’s allowed?
• Is “free speech” just a marketing slogan now?

This isn’t a polished debate — it’s frustration, honesty, and a reality check about how centralized platforms shape culture, conversation, and dissent.

If you’re a creator, a listener, or someone who still believes the internet was supposed to be free — this one’s for you.

The CommonX Podcast features long-form conversations with musicians, cultural voices, veterans, entrepreneurs, and independent thinkers who bring lived experience to the table. Hosted by Jared Mayzak and Ian Primmer, CommonX explores music, culture, work, identity, resilience, and the systems that shape everyday life—without talking points or manufactured outrage.

From iconic artists and creative pioneers to everyday people with extraordinary stories, each episode prioritizes honesty, curiosity, and meaningful dialogue. This is a Gen-X–driven show for listeners who value depth over noise and conversation over clicks.

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In this episode of the Common-X Podcast, we sit down with John Becker, aka We Knew Nothing — a veteran of LA’s punk scene who’s spent decades pushing back against fake culture, manufactured rebellion, and art stripped of meaning.

This isn’t a political episode. It’s a culture and music conversation about:

• What happens when art becomes content
• How punk was absorbed, monetized, and diluted
• The difference between rebellion and branding
• Why authenticity still matters — and where it survives
• Power, control, and the illusion of choice in modern culture

If you’ve ever felt like everything around you looks polished but feels hollow, this conversation will hit home.

Punk isn’t dead — it’s just uncomfortable.

The CommonX Podcast features long-form conversations with musicians, cultural voices, veterans, entrepreneurs, and independent thinkers who bring lived experience to the table. Hosted by Jared Mayzak and Ian Primmer, CommonX explores music, culture, work, identity, resilience, and the systems that shape everyday life—without talking points or manufactured outrage.

From iconic artists and creative pioneers to everyday people with extraordinary stories, each episode prioritizes honesty, curiosity, and meaningful dialogue. This is a Gen-X–driven show for listeners who value depth over noise and conversation over clicks.

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Rather than arguing headlines or party talking points, Chris breaks down the philosophical assumptions beneath the political Left and Right, including why humans seek dominance, how narratives form, and why each side fundamentally disagrees on human nature itself.

Drawing from thinkers like St. Augustine, evolutionary biology, economics, and both Eastern and Western philosophy, this conversation explores why division feels so entrenched today — and why politics may be more about worldview than policy.

If you’ve ever felt that modern discourse is stuck in reaction instead of understanding, this episode is for you.

This isn’t about choosing sides.

It’s about understanding the forces quietly shaping how we think, argue, and live.

The CommonX Podcast features long-form conversations with musicians, cultural voices, veterans, entrepreneurs, and independent thinkers who bring lived experience to the table. Hosted by Jared Mayzak and Ian Primmer, CommonX explores music, culture, work, identity, resilience, and the systems that shape everyday life—without talking points or manufactured outrage.

From iconic artists and creative pioneers to everyday people with extraordinary stories, each episode prioritizes honesty, curiosity, and meaningful dialogue. This is a Gen-X–driven show for listeners who value depth over noise and conversation over clicks.

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Kate shares her journey building DIP without major retail outlets, venture pressure, or legacy gatekeepers—choosing instead to grow intentionally through community, direct relationships, and values-driven decision-making.

From there, the conversation goes deeper.

We explore the uncomfortable truth about plastics in the food system, why sustainability shame doesn’t work, and how plastic has become not just an environmental issue—but a human health and systems problem. Kate offers an inside-the-system perspective on the real constraints founders face, the tradeoffs no one talks about, and where responsibility for change truly lies.

This episode isn’t about perfection.
It’s about honesty, consciousness, and what kind of systems humans are choosing to build next.

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The CommonX Podcast features long-form conversations with musicians, cultural voices, veterans, entrepreneurs, and independent thinkers who bring lived experience to the table. Hosted by Jared Mayzak and Ian Primmer, CommonX explores music, culture, work, identity, resilience, and the systems that shape everyday life—without talking points or manufactured outrage.

From iconic artists and creative pioneers to everyday people with extraordinary stories, each episode prioritizes honesty, curiosity, and meaningful dialogue. This is a Gen-X–driven show for listeners who value depth over noise and conversation over clicks.

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In this episode of the Common-X Podcast, we’re joined by investigative journalist and author Chris Papst, host at FOX45 Baltimore, to discuss his book Fail Factory and why America’s education system continues to fail students, parents, and teachers—while consuming more money than ever.

Drawing from years of reporting, Papst breaks down:

• How bureaucracy and incentives keep broken systems alive

• Why failing schools rarely face real accountability

• The disconnect between funding, outcomes, and student success

• How education failure fuels distrust in institutions and media

• Why reform efforts often collapse under politics and unions

This conversation isn’t about left vs right—it’s about results vs excuses.

📘 Fail Factory exposes why fixing education is so hard—and why ignoring it comes at a massive cost to society.

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The CommonX Podcast features long-form conversations with musicians, cultural voices, veterans, entrepreneurs, and independent thinkers who bring lived experience to the table. Hosted by Jared Mayzak and Ian Primmer, CommonX explores music, culture, work, identity, resilience, and the systems that shape everyday life—without talking points or manufactured outrage.

From iconic artists and creative pioneers to everyday people with extraordinary stories, each episode prioritizes honesty, curiosity, and meaningful dialogue. This is a Gen-X–driven show for listeners who value depth over noise and conversation over clicks.

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• Is philosophy being replaced by ideology?
• Can truth survive without free speech?
• What does separation of church and state actually mean?
• Does artificial intelligence challenge the idea of God or the soul?
• And what happens to religion if technology allows humans to live forever?

This conversation goes beyond politics and theology into something deeper — how societies decide what is real, what is allowed to be said, and what ultimately gives life meaning.

If AI becomes more intelligent, institutions lose trust, and death is no longer inevitable…
What does it mean to be human?

This episode is for thinkers, skeptics, believers, technologists, and anyone questioning where civilization is headed next.

👇 Join the conversation. Question everything.

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The CommonX Podcast features long-form conversations with musicians, cultural voices, veterans, entrepreneurs, and independent thinkers who bring lived experience to the table. Hosted by Jared Mayzak and Ian Primmer, CommonX explores music, culture, work, identity, resilience, and the systems that shape everyday life—without talking points or manufactured outrage.

From iconic artists and creative pioneers to everyday people with extraordinary stories, each episode prioritizes honesty, curiosity, and meaningful dialogue. This is a Gen-X–driven show for listeners who value depth over noise and conversation over clicks.

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In this episode of Common-X, we talk with Miles Spencer, founder of Reflekta, about a new kind of AI designed to preserve human stories, wisdom, and identity — not as static archives, but as interactive memories future generations can engage with.

This conversation goes far beyond “AI tools” and productivity hype. We explore:

• What it means when memory becomes conversational

• Whether preserving wisdom matters more than living forever

• The ethical line between honoring legacy and digital overreach

• How human-centered AI could change grief, culture, and society itself

Along the way, we touch on science-fiction ideas that may be arriving sooner than we think — not as dystopia, but as a test of how responsibly humanity can evolve alongside intelligent machines.

This episode isn’t about fear.
It’s about what we choose to remember — and why it matters.

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The CommonX Podcast features long-form conversations with musicians, cultural voices, veterans, entrepreneurs, and independent thinkers who bring lived experience to the table. Hosted by Jared Mayzak and Ian Primmer, CommonX explores music, culture, work, identity, resilience, and the systems that shape everyday life—without talking points or manufactured outrage.

From iconic artists and creative pioneers to everyday people with extraordinary stories, each episode prioritizes honesty, curiosity, and meaningful dialogue. This is a Gen-X–driven show for listeners who value depth over noise and conversation over clicks.

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On this episode of Common-X, we sit down with former U.S. Marine and military strategy analyst Issac Davis to dismantle that assumption entirely.

Issac explains why Vladimir Putin is not interested in peace negotiations, why proxy wars are accelerating across multiple continents, and how the Western world consistently misreads Russian strategy, history, and tolerance for suffering.

We dig into the long cycles that precede global wars, why Europe is re-arming, how fear and media narratives act as escalation engines, and what recent events — including regime-change signals in South America — communicate to Moscow and Beijing.

This isn’t a headline recap. It’s a strategic breakdown of why World War III wouldn’t start with a declaration — but with miscalculation, denial, and silence.

If you think global war is unthinkable, this conversation explains why that belief itself may be the greatest risk.

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The CommonX Podcast features long-form conversations with musicians, cultural voices, veterans, entrepreneurs, and independent thinkers who bring lived experience to the table. Hosted by Jared Mayzak and Ian Primmer, CommonX explores music, culture, work, identity, resilience, and the systems that shape everyday life—without talking points or manufactured outrage.

From iconic artists and creative pioneers to everyday people with extraordinary stories, each episode prioritizes honesty, curiosity, and meaningful dialogue. This is a Gen-X–driven show for listeners who value depth over noise and conversation over clicks.

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This conversation explores how America’s political system has been gradually overtaken by concentrated wealth, corporate influence, and institutional corruption—leaving everyday citizens increasingly disconnected from real representation. We discuss the erosion of democratic norms, the role of media and money in shaping public perception, and how polarization has become a feature, not a flaw, of modern politics.

Most importantly, we ask the hard question: Is it too late to fix the system,or is there still a path to reclaiming the republic? Calfree and Dolan outline what meaningful reform would actually require and what responsibility still rests with the public.

This episode is a sobering but necessary conversation for anyone concerned about democracy, accountability, and the future of American self-governance.

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The CommonX Podcast features long-form conversations with musicians, cultural voices, veterans, entrepreneurs, and independent thinkers who bring lived experience to the table. Hosted by Jared Mayzak and Ian Primmer, CommonX explores music, culture, work, identity, resilience, and the systems that shape everyday life—without talking points or manufactured outrage.

From iconic artists and creative pioneers to everyday people with extraordinary stories, each episode prioritizes honesty, curiosity, and meaningful dialogue. This is a Gen-X–driven show for listeners who value depth over noise and conversation over clicks.

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In this episode of the Common-X Podcast, we sit down with Dr. Nelva Lee to unpack why two of the most critical systems in our society are failing the people they’re meant to serve.

We explore:

• Why healthcare costs keep rising while access and outcomes decline

• How education has become unequal, outdated, and misaligned with reality

• The structural incentives that keep broken systems alive

• What meaningful reform actually looks like — beyond political talking points

This conversation isn’t about left vs. right — it’s about fixing systems that no longer work and imagining smarter, more human-centered solutions for the future.

If you care about healthcare, education, or the long-term stability of society, this is a conversation you don’t want to miss.

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The CommonX Podcast features long-form conversations with musicians, cultural voices, veterans, entrepreneurs, and independent thinkers who bring lived experience to the table. Hosted by Jared Mayzak and Ian Primmer, CommonX explores music, culture, work, identity, resilience, and the systems that shape everyday life—without talking points or manufactured outrage.

From iconic artists and creative pioneers to everyday people with extraordinary stories, each episode prioritizes honesty, curiosity, and meaningful dialogue. This is a Gen-X–driven show for listeners who value depth over noise and conversation over clicks.

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In this episode of Common-X, we talk with Travis Misurell, founder of FiNC, about the real reason democracy isn’t working — and why arguing Left vs Right keeps us trapped.

Travis introduces a powerful new lens: power-first vs people-first, revealing how money, media, and gatekeeping quietly decide who gets seen, heard, and elected.

This conversation isn’t about parties or ideology.
It’s about upgrading the system itself.

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The CommonX Podcast features long-form conversations with musicians, cultural voices, veterans, entrepreneurs, and independent thinkers who bring lived experience to the table. Hosted by Jared Mayzak and Ian Primmer, CommonX explores music, culture, work, identity, resilience, and the systems that shape everyday life—without talking points or manufactured outrage.

From iconic artists and creative pioneers to everyday people with extraordinary stories, each episode prioritizes honesty, curiosity, and meaningful dialogue. This is a Gen-X–driven show for listeners who value depth over noise and conversation over clicks.

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The CommonX Podcast features long-form conversations with musicians, cultural voices, veterans, entrepreneurs, and independent thinkers who bring lived experience to the table. Hosted by Jared Mayzak and Ian Primmer, CommonX explores music, culture, work, identity, resilience, and the systems that shape everyday life—without talking points or manufactured outrage.

From iconic artists and creative pioneers to everyday people with extraordinary stories, each episode prioritizes honesty, curiosity, and meaningful dialogue. This is a Gen-X–driven show for listeners who value depth over noise and conversation over clicks.

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The CommonX Podcast features long-form conversations with musicians, cultural voices, veterans, entrepreneurs, and independent thinkers who bring lived experience to the table. Hosted by Jared Mayzak and Ian Primmer, CommonX explores music, culture, work, identity, resilience, and the systems that shape everyday life—without talking points or manufactured outrage.

From iconic artists and creative pioneers to everyday people with extraordinary stories, each episode prioritizes honesty, curiosity, and meaningful dialogue. This is a Gen-X–driven show for listeners who value depth over noise and conversation over clicks.

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The CommonX Podcast features long-form conversations with musicians, cultural voices, veterans, entrepreneurs, and independent thinkers who bring lived experience to the table. Hosted by Jared Mayzak and Ian Primmer, CommonX explores music, culture, work, identity, resilience, and the systems that shape everyday life—without talking points or manufactured outrage.

From iconic artists and creative pioneers to everyday people with extraordinary stories, each episode prioritizes honesty, curiosity, and meaningful dialogue. This is a Gen-X–driven show for listeners who value depth over noise and conversation over clicks.

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The CommonX Podcast features long-form conversations with musicians, cultural voices, veterans, entrepreneurs, and independent thinkers who bring lived experience to the table. Hosted by Jared Mayzak and Ian Primmer, CommonX explores music, culture, work, identity, resilience, and the systems that shape everyday life—without talking points or manufactured outrage.

From iconic artists and creative pioneers to everyday people with extraordinary stories, each episode prioritizes honesty, curiosity, and meaningful dialogue. This is a Gen-X–driven show for listeners who value depth over noise and conversation over clicks.

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Whether you’re a musician, a survivor, or someone searching for meaning, this conversation reminds us that healing often begins with a single note.

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The CommonX Podcast features long-form conversations with musicians, cultural voices, veterans, entrepreneurs, and independent thinkers who bring lived experience to the table. Hosted by Jared Mayzak and Ian Primmer, CommonX explores music, culture, work, identity, resilience, and the systems that shape everyday life—without talking points or manufactured outrage.

From iconic artists and creative pioneers to everyday people with extraordinary stories, each episode prioritizes honesty, curiosity, and meaningful dialogue. This is a Gen-X–driven show for listeners who value depth over noise and conversation over clicks.

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The CommonX Podcast features long-form conversations with musicians, cultural voices, veterans, entrepreneurs, and independent thinkers who bring lived experience to the table. Hosted by Jared Mayzak and Ian Primmer, CommonX explores music, culture, work, identity, resilience, and the systems that shape everyday life—without talking points or manufactured outrage.

From iconic artists and creative pioneers to everyday people with extraordinary stories, each episode prioritizes honesty, curiosity, and meaningful dialogue. This is a Gen-X–driven show for listeners who value depth over noise and conversation over clicks.

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The CommonX Podcast features long-form conversations with musicians, cultural voices, veterans, entrepreneurs, and independent thinkers who bring lived experience to the table. Hosted by Jared Mayzak and Ian Primmer, CommonX explores music, culture, work, identity, resilience, and the systems that shape everyday life—without talking points or manufactured outrage.

From iconic artists and creative pioneers to everyday people with extraordinary stories, each episode prioritizes honesty, curiosity, and meaningful dialogue. This is a Gen-X–driven show for listeners who value depth over noise and conversation over clicks.

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Chris opens up about his musical journey from Seattle’s alt-rock scene to his unexpected second act as Caspar Babypants, creating joyful, imaginative music for kids and families. He shares how stripping music down to two strings and pure creativity became his secret to happiness, and how letting go of fame led to a deeper artistic freedom.

From stories of the 90s grunge era to reflections on parenthood, mindfulness, and the power of simplicity, this episode dives deep into the mind of an artist who continues to evolve — and inspire others to do the same.

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The CommonX Podcast features long-form conversations with musicians, cultural voices, veterans, entrepreneurs, and independent thinkers who bring lived experience to the table. Hosted by Jared Mayzak and Ian Primmer, CommonX explores music, culture, work, identity, resilience, and the systems that shape everyday life—without talking points or manufactured outrage.

From iconic artists and creative pioneers to everyday people with extraordinary stories, each episode prioritizes honesty, curiosity, and meaningful dialogue. This is a Gen-X–driven show for listeners who value depth over noise and conversation over clicks.

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Dr. Gerald Horne, Counter-Revolution of 1776, American Revolution, slavery and freedom, history of slavery, U.S. history, racial capitalism, colonialism, democracy, fascism, civil rights, voter suppression, American empire, social movements, Common-X Podcast

The CommonX Podcast features long-form conversations with musicians, cultural voices, veterans, entrepreneurs, and independent thinkers who bring lived experience to the table. Hosted by Jared Mayzak and Ian Primmer, CommonX explores music, culture, work, identity, resilience, and the systems that shape everyday life—without talking points or manufactured outrage.

From iconic artists and creative pioneers to everyday people with extraordinary stories, each episode prioritizes honesty, curiosity, and meaningful dialogue. This is a Gen-X–driven show for listeners who value depth over noise and conversation over clicks.

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Join us for an inspiring and entertaining conversation with one of television’s most recognizable faces.

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The CommonX Podcast features long-form conversations with musicians, cultural voices, veterans, entrepreneurs, and independent thinkers who bring lived experience to the table. Hosted by Jared Mayzak and Ian Primmer, CommonX explores music, culture, work, identity, resilience, and the systems that shape everyday life—without talking points or manufactured outrage.

From iconic artists and creative pioneers to everyday people with extraordinary stories, each episode prioritizes honesty, curiosity, and meaningful dialogue. This is a Gen-X–driven show for listeners who value depth over noise and conversation over clicks.

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In this episode of the Common-X Podcast, we sit down with journalist and author Bruce A. Smith, one of the leading researchers on the D.B. Cooper case. We explore the FBI investigation, the suspects, the myths versus facts, and why this mystery still grips the public imagination more than 50 years later. Was Cooper a criminal mastermind who got away clean — or a desperate man who didn’t survive the jump?

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The CommonX Podcast features long-form conversations with musicians, cultural voices, veterans, entrepreneurs, and independent thinkers who bring lived experience to the table. Hosted by Jared Mayzak and Ian Primmer, CommonX explores music, culture, work, identity, resilience, and the systems that shape everyday life—without talking points or manufactured outrage.

From iconic artists and creative pioneers to everyday people with extraordinary stories, each episode prioritizes honesty, curiosity, and meaningful dialogue. This is a Gen-X–driven show for listeners who value depth over noise and conversation over clicks.

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The CommonX Podcast features long-form conversations with musicians, cultural voices, veterans, entrepreneurs, and independent thinkers who bring lived experience to the table. Hosted by Jared Mayzak and Ian Primmer, CommonX explores music, culture, work, identity, resilience, and the systems that shape everyday life—without talking points or manufactured outrage.

From iconic artists and creative pioneers to everyday people with extraordinary stories, each episode prioritizes honesty, curiosity, and meaningful dialogue. This is a Gen-X–driven show for listeners who value depth over noise and conversation over clicks.

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The CommonX Podcast features long-form conversations with musicians, cultural voices, veterans, entrepreneurs, and independent thinkers who bring lived experience to the table. Hosted by Jared Mayzak and Ian Primmer, CommonX explores music, culture, work, identity, resilience, and the systems that shape everyday life—without talking points or manufactured outrage.

From iconic artists and creative pioneers to everyday people with extraordinary stories, each episode prioritizes honesty, curiosity, and meaningful dialogue. This is a Gen-X–driven show for listeners who value depth over noise and conversation over clicks.

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It’s raw, unfiltered, and eye-opening. Whether you’re a fan of music history, Southern culture, or digging for the truth behind the curtain, this is a conversation you won’t want to miss.

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The CommonX Podcast features long-form conversations with musicians, cultural voices, veterans, entrepreneurs, and independent thinkers who bring lived experience to the table. Hosted by Jared Mayzak and Ian Primmer, CommonX explores music, culture, work, identity, resilience, and the systems that shape everyday life—without talking points or manufactured outrage.

From iconic artists and creative pioneers to everyday people with extraordinary stories, each episode prioritizes honesty, curiosity, and meaningful dialogue. This is a Gen-X–driven show for listeners who value depth over noise and conversation over clicks.

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The CommonX Podcast features long-form conversations with musicians, cultural voices, veterans, entrepreneurs, and independent thinkers who bring lived experience to the table. Hosted by Jared Mayzak and Ian Primmer, CommonX explores music, culture, work, identity, resilience, and the systems that shape everyday life—without talking points or manufactured outrage.

From iconic artists and creative pioneers to everyday people with extraordinary stories, each episode prioritizes honesty, curiosity, and meaningful dialogue. This is a Gen-X–driven show for listeners who value depth over noise and conversation over clicks.

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The CommonX Podcast features long-form conversations with musicians, cultural voices, veterans, entrepreneurs, and independent thinkers who bring lived experience to the table. Hosted by Jared Mayzak and Ian Primmer, CommonX explores music, culture, work, identity, resilience, and the systems that shape everyday life—without talking points or manufactured outrage.

From iconic artists and creative pioneers to everyday people with extraordinary stories, each episode prioritizes honesty, curiosity, and meaningful dialogue. This is a Gen-X–driven show for listeners who value depth over noise and conversation over clicks.

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Episode One opens the season with our most honest roundtable yet—featuring our wives, April Primmer and Sabrina Mayzak. Together, we dive deep into the Epstein files, break down the latest global chaos, and explore how current events affect everyday families like ours. No scripts. No filters. Just real talk from people who care about the truth and aren’t afraid to ask hard questions.

Season 2 is about leveling up, speaking louder, and pulling no punches. Buckle up.

The CommonX Podcast features long-form conversations with musicians, cultural voices, veterans, entrepreneurs, and independent thinkers who bring lived experience to the table. Hosted by Jared Mayzak and Ian Primmer, CommonX explores music, culture, work, identity, resilience, and the systems that shape everyday life—without talking points or manufactured outrage.

From iconic artists and creative pioneers to everyday people with extraordinary stories, each episode prioritizes honesty, curiosity, and meaningful dialogue. This is a Gen-X–driven show for listeners who value depth over noise and conversation over clicks.

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The CommonX Podcast features long-form conversations with musicians, cultural voices, veterans, entrepreneurs, and independent thinkers who bring lived experience to the table. Hosted by Jared Mayzak and Ian Primmer, CommonX explores music, culture, work, identity, resilience, and the systems that shape everyday life—without talking points or manufactured outrage.

From iconic artists and creative pioneers to everyday people with extraordinary stories, each episode prioritizes honesty, curiosity, and meaningful dialogue. This is a Gen-X–driven show for listeners who value depth over noise and conversation over clicks.

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Welcome to CommonX—where unfiltered conversations meet uncommon sense.

Hosted by Jared and Ian, two Gen Xers navigating the chaos of culture, politics, music, and everything in between. From controversial guests to hard questions and unexpected laughs, CommonX brings real talk back to the table—no scripts, no spin, and definitely no safe zones.

Think of it as your weekly dose of perspective… from the middle out.

New episodes every week. Hit play. Challenge the noise.

The CommonX Podcast features long-form conversations with musicians, cultural voices, veterans, entrepreneurs, and independent thinkers who bring lived experience to the table. Hosted by Jared Mayzak and Ian Primmer, CommonX explores music, culture, work, identity, resilience, and the systems that shape everyday life—without talking points or manufactured outrage.

From iconic artists and creative pioneers to everyday people with extraordinary stories, each episode prioritizes honesty, curiosity, and meaningful dialogue. This is a Gen-X–driven show for listeners who value depth over noise and conversation over clicks.

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We dive deep into simulation theory, the nature of consciousness, and what it means to truly wake up. Whether you’re a skeptic or a seeker, this conversation might just flip your perspective.

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The CommonX Podcast features long-form conversations with musicians, cultural voices, veterans, entrepreneurs, and independent thinkers who bring lived experience to the table. Hosted by Jared Mayzak and Ian Primmer, CommonX explores music, culture, work, identity, resilience, and the systems that shape everyday life—without talking points or manufactured outrage.

From iconic artists and creative pioneers to everyday people with extraordinary stories, each episode prioritizes honesty, curiosity, and meaningful dialogue. This is a Gen-X–driven show for listeners who value depth over noise and conversation over clicks.

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Whether you’re a longtime fan or new to the movement, this episode blends music history, cultural commentary, and fresh insight from one of the genre’s most distinctive voices.

🔊 Listen now and relive the era that refuses to fade.

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The CommonX Podcast features long-form conversations with musicians, cultural voices, veterans, entrepreneurs, and independent thinkers who bring lived experience to the table. Hosted by Jared Mayzak and Ian Primmer, CommonX explores music, culture, work, identity, resilience, and the systems that shape everyday life—without talking points or manufactured outrage.

From iconic artists and creative pioneers to everyday people with extraordinary stories, each episode prioritizes honesty, curiosity, and meaningful dialogue. This is a Gen-X–driven show for listeners who value depth over noise and conversation over clicks.

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