Punk Chores

Cat & Chilly are chillin on the Minnie Pearl in Pittsburgh at Diamond Beach chatting about the trappings of punkdom, working at a living history museum, exotic dancing, two stepping in circles, Texians and imaginal realms, moving into a ballpit full of cans, living with mystery dancing lights, learning that community is a long con, creating a road side attraction, the importance of different h...

Cat & Jonah are in the boat office at Diamond Beach chatting about growing up with a history buff father, going to arts highschool, the good old pager days, being a ninja juice commando, being a noisy night owl paper boy, being a suit kid, running away to Europe to escape a charge, creating a funky odd family as an 18 year old in Amsterdam, moving kids summer camp luggage for money, living in...

Cat & Gerty are on the Mississippi River chatting about being the straight edge roadie in Japan, running away to the big apple with yr skateboard, living under the radar, losing all your filters, going to carpentry school with dumpstered wood, barfing on villagers sandals in southeast Asia, having your motor problems solved through the power of flavor crystals, getting the boathouse for a $2 b...

Cat & Jess are in South Minneapolis chatting about playing footsie with Mormon alt boys, discovering punk through Alkaline Trio, being a fellow myspace LoVeR, being an oldies radio dj and xeroxing their boobs, running away to Minneapolis to be a musician, writing a song for Red Bull, going on tour, making top dollar off poppers, accidentally cock blocking, eating too many everclear cherries, m...

Cat and Bruce sit in camping chairs next to the mighty Mississippi River with the roaring cicadas for company and chat about being Pre-punk, marching in the '83 Mayday parade, apple harvest, dumpster diving, working with refugee populations in Thailand, moving to Laos, penpalling with Train Doc while helping formulate the most precious and coveted & Iconic CrEw ChAnGe, fighting against big hyd...

Cat and Sandy are in North Minneapolis chatting about meeting on Earth day at age 17 in the suburbs outside Minneapolis, being a cool arts high school kid, working at the laundromat, being embarrassed by Dad's anniversary convertible, getting your mohawk revoked, finding nirvana fans on myspace, being a scenester, taking the census,  having every classic millennial job, the apple store, American a...

Cat and Amanda are on the Mississippi River on a mosquito ridden sand dune chatting about growin up as a little weirdo near D.C., dodging lava cheese at Starbux, getting into trouble as a teen, becoming a wilderness therapy guide, making  myspace friends, discovering the lesbian paradise of Kansas City, working at a Korean title firm, BEETS, being an underage bartender on probation, van/trailer/bu...

Cat and Nope are in the Bronx in New York City chatting about being an incubator baby, discovering DIY through dirt jumps in the woods, growing up as their mother's favorite person, being a sponsored child at riding on boards sideways, realizing there is money in dumpsters, painting houses, working at Pendleton, never trusting a lurker, working beets, becoming an old timey gutter yuppy, learning e...

Cat & Mary are in Pittsburgh chatting about being a child in Texas, drawing nature at a young age, discovering punk through Sassy magazine, having punk pen pals, letterpress printing, moving to Germany, being a radio DJ, booking DIY cutie pie music for years, becoming a prolific printmaker, working at a book store, moving to Canada, and experiencing work as a "mezze platter" of creative and sa...

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Cat & DJ Desert Rat are in Pittsburgh chatting about being a high school drop out, being a queer non binary egg,  living in a "lighthouse town", living in "Indyucky", working for your mom at Whimsy, touring Europe as a teenager, using book your own fucking life, getting arrested for byrning fl@gs, painting the KFC, becoming the victim of the war machine's poison boomerang effect, and respondin...

Cat & Hibs are in Pittsburgh chatting about having absent parents, accidentally working leatherwork sewing for a naz* motorcycle gang, being an under tatted punk able to drift in and out of different circles, getting pregnant, having a traumatizing young adulthood, riding trains out West, gathering skills on your tool belt, trying to marry a Canadian, weed world, developing kinship networks an...

Cat & Dan Nowhere are in his "trash shack in trash woods" hidden amongst the leaves chatting about being from a disc jockey family, having to try to sweet talk the cops, surviving Catholicism, getting caught skating, getting sucked into trick of private art school, working at ROSS Dress for Less, DIY shows in Portland, animal liberation activism, almost dying on yr bike, riding trains in the S...

Cat & Tilly are in Bushwick on the backroom couch at Vers chatting about Tilly's experiences growing up working Beatles Fest for their parents, being a theatre kid in Jersey, having a Burner sibling with two crazy buses, working for a magazine before even starting college, having homo erotic hockey player wrestling neighbors,  having the one crazy house by all the frats, going to fashion week,...

Cat & Fox are in Pittsburgh chatting about playing on the railroad tracks, having a punkle Steve, gettin peed on cuz jellyfish, turning from a Korn head into a punker, knowing how to find punks, being anti-car but hitchhiking incessantly, riding trains all over the place, doing porn, having scary pot farm experiences, meeting multiple wizards, herb school, surviving being the "token queer", be...

PARDON THE 5 MINUTES OF DEAD AIR, I HAVE MULCH BRAIN. WILL BE FIXED ON ALL PLATFORMS WITHIN THE NEXT 24 HRS. Cat & Douger are in Pittsburgh talking about liberating materials to build a treehouse, being dragged out of high school by the cops, being a right handed middle child, falling in love with the drums, working at the hipster belt factory, playing bad rock n roll, quitting the nacho resta...

If you autodownloaded this morning redownload!!  File was corrupted but since has been fixed. Cat & Nikki are in Pittsburgh chatting about finding yourself in dark tunnels, having a not so merry time in Maryland, finding pornos in the woods, having a hippie sibling (CLASSIC!), being goth, becoming a hair color wizard, moving to Spain, cutting hair drunk, puking in a cup holder, struggling with...

Cat & Morgan sit in Morgan's house in Minneapolis with Bizzy the dog and talk about being pizza punk for life, getting knocked out in the cafeteria, getting hit on your bike, being the dirty gay punk sibling who has a basement entrance, being the female incarnation of four-loko, finishing college in Brazil, being in a bunch of bands with funny gross names, having your hardcore exterior hugged...

Cat and Theresia are in Minneapolis chatting about growing up with a sex worker drug slingin' mom and an incarcerated dad, growing up in bars, brothels and drug deals, discovering punk through Hole, getting your friends accidentally kidnapped in a deal gone wrong, sleeping with 1,000 55 year old men, growing up with Jodie and Charlie as yr role models who don't teach you taxes, moving to Tuscan, b...

Cat & Billie chat in Minneapolis about doing drugs at 12, becoming a beatnik, becoming an Occupy Wallstreet Floridian, going to herb school, realizing that you hate prisons, being the only punk at law school, moving to NYC, becoming a public defender, becoming comfortable with not knowing everything, dodging hostile clients, and going to sleep knowing that despite everything, the work you did...

Cat & Emil are in Pittsburgh chatting about having the house that looks like it's always having a garage sale, growing up with two freaky parents and siblings in the part of Michigan that's not the hand, getting dengue fever in India, evading sex pest members of the Strokes in Italy, not joining a metal band in Italy, being the token "barefoot cello girl" in the early 2000s, being a therapist...

Cat and Jimmy are in KCMO in the stuffed animal room at Farewell talking about being a left handed middle child, one of three punk brothers, being a runaway, getting wild at the Savannah Saint Patrick's Day, prolific heists, gouging your butt on a train, becoming a kinda young dad, being the 411 guy, getting in fights as a lab rat, and becoming a master of quizzes, games and puzzles.  Intro Nature...

Cat & Katie are in Pittsburgh with the dog Marvin and the neighbor lawn mowing chatting about being a hipster straightening your hair in a field, avoiding the family biz, leaving Ohio, riding dirt bikes, working at the Hallmark store, becoming a freelance photographer, being in a straight edge gang, and becoming a nurse in the midst of surviving cancer! Intro Nature Boys  Outro Tonya

Cat & Max are in Pittsburgh chatting about antiquing at the pizza joint, being a basement kid, holding one hundred jobs before the age of 12, getting bullied by snowboarders, reading Stephen King at the toy store, being a big time poster salesman, using the goldfish brain to survive labor, diverting people's expectations, being a good kid trying to be bad, becoming a local coffeeshop owner, an...

Cat & Mads are at the Mountain School chattin' about ruining Thanksgiving, losing her grandma, being the bread gurl, discovering piles of Playboys in the back of the restaurant, almost losing your teeth in a swimming pool, being a vagabond rock climber bro, being a child prodigy artist, making your cat go on road trips with you, learning earth skills, creating an incredible post- Helene mutual...