Punk Chores

Cat & Kyle are in Ohio chatting about bodily functions, praying hands at Fedex, stuffing doll butts with yr mom, being left handed, trimmin', clinical trials, lighting your genitals on fire, bottles of pee, juggalos, Ween v. Phish, being a dinosaur in a ska band, tye-dying for top dollar, and being a freak for life.  Intro Nature Boys Outro Horse Breakfast 

Cat & Kaetz are in a coffeeshop drinking hot chocolate in Guatemala battling the background noise of some gossiping teens as we chat about growing up as a village punk in rural Germany, wearing pajama pants all through youth, living in communal punk trailer parks, learning Spanish, becoming a bike mechanic, being saved by DIY culture, and studying genocide in both Europe and South America.    ...

Cat, Transmut8 (Luigi), and Chris are in Xela, Guatemala talking about starting an info shop, being punk in a country with very few punks, Indigenous resistance, our Mayan signs, graffiti, and continuing to exist after your government tries to kill you.    Intro Nature Boys Outro Transmut8 

Just an update to say I am alive, in Guatemala and i did not complete an episode this week other than this update! Back to normally scheduled interviews next week, I love you and I am sorry to disappoint if my hour and a half interviews are integral to your weekly routine.  Love you! Back next week! -Cat     

I AM SO SORRY THE AUDIO GOT MESSED UP SECOND HALF OF THIS EPISODE. THUS BRIT'S PARTS ARE QUIETER THAN MINE, GREATEST APOLOGIES TO ONE AND ALL. Cat & Brit are in Brit's vampire hunting layer post Christmas time talking about frozen animals, learning guitar listening to Jewel, being a dish bitch, driving busted vans cross country, being a hotdog and cupcake punk, shot gunning beers for youtube,...

Cat & Krystyna talk about being a runaway halloween prop maker, a child laborer factory seamstress, a labrat, a punk rock oil drinking zombie, almost dying in New Zealand while saving the whales, getting a troll drunk, making fairy wings and a giant dragon egg, living in abuelita's basement in California, and being a part of Skull fest for sweet sixteen years.  Intro Nature Boys Outro Peace Ta...

Cat & Dana chat about growing up in an east coast city with no culture, finding noise music without ever having to bother with punk, being a bike messenger (classic), pretending to be a professional mover with a van, getting out of parking tickets for having an avant garde van color, building a false entrance, having mushroom epiphanies about your future, becoming a professional philosopher, a...

Cat & Tree chat about falling off the amish cart as a child, softball on acid, scamming at Dairy Queen, witnessing possible neighbor murder in Colorado, hanging with a Waco survivor in California, working with adults with disabilities, sewing little monsters, astral projecting into the Perfect Storm, moving to Portland (as one does), moving to Pittsburgh, doing set dressing for the movies, and...

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 restaura...

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, wrenc...

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 pu...

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 B...

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...

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.  ...

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...

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...

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 dabb...

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 spec...

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