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While ”punk” is a lifestyle stemming from the wild ass music and mohawks from the early 1970s, in the last fifty odd years it has come to mean a lot more than describing a style of dress and music. Punk is an umbrella term for all of the growths sprouting out of ”do it yourself” outsider culture. House shows, stick and poke tattoos, riding freight trains, making zines, building boats to sail down the Mississippi, welding bike frames together, getting scabies from sleeping on a couch on tour.
Our culture is kept alive by the myriad of hustles we’ve cobbled together to avoid commitment to careers allowing for giant swaths of time to travel, make art, fuck around, find out. Punk jobs exist in the yellowy amber goop Venn diagram of craigslist, word of mouth and sheer luck. Sometimes well paid, sometimes not. Disgusting, terrifying, monotonous, or mind boggling but above all, good for stories. So grab your lighter, re-associate with your cat you haven’t seen in 6 months since working on a weed farm and buckle up. It’s time for your punk chores.
Our culture is kept alive by the myriad of hustles we’ve cobbled together to avoid commitment to careers allowing for giant swaths of time to travel, make art, fuck around, find out. Punk jobs exist in the yellowy amber goop Venn diagram of craigslist, word of mouth and sheer luck. Sometimes well paid, sometimes not. Disgusting, terrifying, monotonous, or mind boggling but above all, good for stories. So grab your lighter, re-associate with your cat you haven’t seen in 6 months since working on a weed farm and buckle up. It’s time for your punk chores.
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Cat & Todd participate in the first ever Punk Chores remote interview by having to enter & exit Zoom meetings every 20 minutes because neither have a paid subscription. Reminiscing about the good old days meeting in Chicago, matching butt cheek tattoos, catching up in Oklahoma City, a long history of tour & friendship in the Midwest, cooking the best omelettes at the waterpark restaurant, not getting hired as a sign holder, frying chicken, thrift store truck driving, pooping your pants in Restaurant Depot, and finding true love, support and a new outlook on life in recovery from alcohol.
Intro Nature Boys
Outro Brother Gruesome
Other music by The Hex, Hurray for the Riff Raff, Evangelicals
Cat & Xanadu chat about growing up go cart racing, blowing up dams and eating beavers, butchering meat, sleeping on Las Vegas laser light bros couches, the gem show in the desert, shoving contraband into a roadkill raccoon, escaping shitty exes, acquiring a van pontoon from the UP, riding trains with one shoe on, fixin' cranes and surviving Alaskan fishing season, dancing for top dollar, wrenchin' on cars, and doing it all with a sweet little pupper who snoozed on the sleeping bag as we chatted.
Intro Nature Boys Outro Frozen Teens
Cat & Joey chat about being a metal violinist, being in ska bands, occupy Wallstreet, touring in Europe on motorcycle, and writing books about alternate universe rock stars and zombie apocalypses.
Intro Nature Boys
Outro Joey Molinaro
Other music by Channel 7, Intro to Airlift, The Walking Ruins
Cat & Ruby are in Ruby's old ass gorgeous camper van yapping about turning from neuroscientist to tattooer, boy to girl, Connecticutian to Yinzer, skateboarding and committing to the trick, hating money, washing the shit out of those dishes, realizing the secret to overcoming fear of ghosts, tattooing jerks, and embracing the void of not knowing.
Intro: Nature Boys Outro: Hallucination
Cat & Marissa sip Coors on a 3 seasons porch in Braddock by the train tracks and talk about all of Marissa's crazy cool jobs. Becoming an incredible realistic oil painter, being adjacent to people who may have done graffiti, making escape rooms, working at the childrens museum, attempting to unionize big tech, making production art, making guitars for rockstars, making miniatures, and giant puppets, and eventually headed towards self playing instruments House on the Rock style!
Intro Nature Boys Outro Gland , also FUCK ICE!!!!!!!!!
Cat & Stefano are in Berlin reminiscing about old times living in crazy collective houses, being a lil Italian cowboy selling icecream, smashing beer bottles on ancient statues, running away from industrial Italy to find a new life in Berlin, trimmin' weed, and making incredible events mashing harsh noise, techno & punk come to fruition in Berlin's abandoned and DIY spaces.
Intro Nature Boys
Outro Gremlins
Other music by High Circle
Regular programming back Jan 6. Enjoy this weird little episode, i hope it sits comfortably like a big ol' plate of rice pudding, fruit soup, meat fondue, lefsa and pretzel salad (yes, this is the stuff I ate every Christmas my mom was alive. She made some weird stuff but it was fun) Love yall, see ya soon. <3Cat
Cat & Katie sit in the squat palace and discuss being a god-squad ska keyboardist, living above a Pittsburgh pizza legend, becoming the accountant for the weird, learning about bolts and carpenter-ing, partyin' and falling through the sky in Europe, getting a stomach bug and floating down the Mississippi, denouncing college & christianity standing on a couch, taking your 8 month old baby on a crusty all-rain river trip, eating peanut butter naked on the house boat, breaking the glass ceiling at Bruegger's, buying multiple boats until finally making the dream come true of owning a punk rock marina.
Intro Nature Boys
Outro Lahar
Cat & Alan are in Pittsburgh chatting about playing baseball, being Polish, figuring out that god is everywhere, being a crusty hippie, meeting your first PuNk, being a fruit & veggie co-op guy, moving to Albuquerque sleeping on the futon floor, house painting, getting cancer, and becoming totally dedicated to fighting death by incarceration & finding the humanity that's locked away.
Intro Nature Boys
Outro Close Prisons
Other music Weird Al, Russian MeatSquats, Birthday Party, Sugar Cubes
Cat & Wes hang in Brooklyn and chat about a wild ass drug and rock n' roll child hood, skate ramp bedroom, being a lifeguard, cat sitting, working for peanuts in Bolivia, being an absolutely horrible breakfast waiter, "book selling", living in a homeless encampment, squatting in Oakland, punk shows on your bed, fighting old guys, feeding spaghetti to your dog, riding trains, spending all your money on tacos for your friend, having your mom quit for you, showing up to the fishing boat late, becoming an accomplished journalist and writer, and finding the career that doesn't exist.
Intro Nature Boys
Outro SemiHongo
Cat & Paulie sit in a park in Bushwick & chat about growing up in New Jersey, squatting in Philly and NYC, dog walkin', dumpstering pizza, carpentry, snow birdin', train ridin', hitchhikin', playing in punk bands, getting into sailing and squatting in boats, and TRYING TO REMEMBER WHAT HAPPENED AND WHERE.
Intro Nature Boys
Outro Sub Rosa
other music by Beer Garden & Crybaby MacArthur thx to Remote Outposts blog
Cat & Xristina are in Xristina's studio in Berlin chatting about doily jock straps, edible nipples, mycelium that eats plastic, clothing made out of mushrooms, larping, playforming, gaming, being an artist from a tiny Greek island, and figuring out how to outrun the plastic.
Intro Nature Boys
Outro Lazaro
Cat & Brandon chat about being a CaLiFoRnIaN turned prairie punk, harvesting wild rice, living out of a backpack, tanning hides, becoming an ethical landlord on accident, turning your attic into a climbing gym, slinging gems at the rock and gem shows, becoming a welder and fabricator, discovering Minneapolis, Battle Train, snow removal, making traditional drums, protest marching band, and dabbling in every damn thing you could ever even think of. Intro Nature Boys Outro Permanent Vacation
Cat & Michael chat mostly about puppetry and making art and being a creative weirdo in South Minneapolis!
Intro Nature Boys
Outro Soundtrack to BAAL (1970)
Cat & Gina sit on the deck in Pittsburgh in July and chat about converting diesel buses to veggie oil, autonomous boat house community on the Mississippi, rescuing a famous painting from flood water, driving through a hurricane, controversial dog stories, working on the movies, boat robberies, intentional living on farmland, house painting, tour, and the hindsight to look back and see the special-ness of it all.
Intro by Nature Boys
Outro by Come Holy Spirit
Cat & Big Dawg talk stealing at Micheal's, vet tech, having your clothes covered in shit at Fecal Manor, having your eye obliterated by a rubber bullet at a protest, building Ice Castles, driving Zamboni, Haunted Houses and general punk low livin' turned sober animal healing.
Intro Nature Boys
Outro Sneakin' Out
Cat & Andrés talk about sly pranks, industrial music, living in a legendary punk show venue, being a teen on yr own livin large, riding trains, bucking the doopers, and so much more.
Intro Nature Boys
Outro Andrés instrument performing a Noothgrush cover
Cat & Nicole sit on Sandpiper and talk about art, plants, natural dyes, weaving, taking over a hotel when Minneapolis was on fire, getting Covid in Ireland, being "not NOT a punk" and trying to steal Puffins from a magical island.
Intro Nature Boys
Outro Silver Rein
Cat & Emma talk about Cat's time doing death cleanup in the wilds of Florida. TW: contains mentions of suicide, violence, and general gore.
Intro: Nature Boys
Outro: Mansion
Cat & Devohn chat about being the French Toast Guy, roasting local politicians, being a comic in the midwest, working as a PCA, golf caddying, Booing at the Van Gogh interactive exhibit, protesting police brutality, and so much more!
Intro by Nature Boys
Outro by Wesley Willis
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