Punk Chores

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...

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